>All my life I've thought spyware was developed primarily by evil Russian and Chinese hackers. Yep, manufacturing of consent at play. But this aside, I have a

>All my life I've thought spyware was developed primarily by evil Russian and Chinese hackers. Yep, manufacturing of consent at play. But this aside, I have a friend who worked in Israeli company whose main business was to sell phone exploits and customer data by using the still very insecure SS7. Basically they were registered as voip operator, but according to my friend that was only a cover, and the real business was selling surveillance data they were gathering via SS7.