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I remember that the EFF used to defend programmers freedom against the government's arguments that hacking tools / exploits could be misused and should be regul

• busterarm 7y ago
  EFF threw grugq and every exploit developer under the bus way back in 2011 or 2012 when they literally made up a quote attributed to grugq where they claimed he said "the only reason I don't sell exploits to the Middle East is that they don't pay enough". He had to clarify his position stating which governments he sold exploits to and why (basically only Five Eyes). TBH, the infosec industry is full of (vipers) people posturing, trying to protect their secret knowledge and exert control over who has what capabilities (just like traditional government spies do). The author's mistake was open sourcing his RAT and putting it on GitHub.