> We need to avoid the slippery slope of blaming the tools If you are designing, developing, marketing and delivering a tool for surveillance to a government a

> We need to avoid the slippery slope of blaming the tools If you are designing, developing, marketing and delivering a tool for surveillance to a government agency, you have a pretty good idea of what it will be used for. I think you also have a pretty good idea that all governments, to a greater or lesser degree, cheat. They'll pinky-swear to use it only against teh terra, or pedophiles, or drug dealers, or sidewalk-spitters if that gets people's dander up. And then they use it against anyone who threatens the current power arrangement. So yes, I blame NSO, Hacking Team, and the rest of them. They deserve the blame, because they design, develop, market and sell these things knowing full well the use to which they will be put. They also know these tools will leak and be used by third parties, because that's how this works and they analyze third party malware themselves. Arms dealers are awful people, no matter who's flag they wave.