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If an American tech company tried to do something like this some employees would refuse and you would hear about the employee protests. I think because of the c
by guelo 7y ago
If an American tech company tried to do something like this some employees would refuse and you would hear about the employee protests. I think because of the compulsory military service and their multi-generational dirty war Israel engineers don't seem to have these kinds of moral qualms.
(Normally I get flagged on HN for saying things like this, would love an explanation if it happens this time.)
- nocturnial 7y agoI'm not going to flag you but I think you're drawing the wrong conclusions. I don't have the numbers but I would be very surprised if the majority of Israeli cyber-ops ex-military sells spyware to authoritarian regimes. A few did do that but I don't think it's justified to blame the military service and whatnot for this. Another thing to remember is that an Italian company also sold spyware to authoritarian regimes. The things they did was really similar to the Israeli one. Same excuses, same pr, same blabla... but without the compulsory military service and whatever reasons you listed.
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