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I pay taxes Taxes go to FBI/Europol etc Security services pay these shady data brokers with my taxes to access data Shady data broker buys hacked data from c
by nelaboras 6y ago
I pay taxes
Taxes go to FBI/Europol etc
Security services pay these shady data brokers with my taxes to access data
Shady data broker buys hacked data from criminals with my taxes
Cybercriminals live off my taxes.
Cybercriminals hack more sites, selling/leaking my data.
I don't know whether the ends justifies the means here, but it seems really off that our security apparatus pays money to maintain a criminal ecosystem. On the other hand once the data is available it would also be wrong not to use it to catch pedophiles, mafia members, tax evaders, ...