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Re:Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE by aborsy on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:15PM (#28543805)
The price of a software, or use of an exploit, for a nation state is nothing!

Money is probably not the only factor.

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Re:Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE by snovv_crash on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:46PM (#28544144)
UAE is probably very suspicious of NSO software coming from Israel, and what other, hidden, capabilities it might have.
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Re:Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE by cyanydeez on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:48PM (#28545405)
yeah, no matter how equally dirty your supplier is, they still have different motives than you, regardless of any human bias.

perfect principal-agent problem

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