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Why would anyone sue or arrest them? They develop the software, they do not break into the phones of journalists. The article says that the governmental agenci
by notdang 5y ago
Why would anyone sue or arrest them? They develop the software, they do not break into the phones of journalists.
The article says that the governmental agencies are breaking into the phone. These hacking companies just license their software to these governmental agencies.
- sudosysgen 5y agoTry to sell ransomware programs and sell support contracts and then see what happens. It is illegal to provide assistance in the commitance of a crime even if you're not the one that pulls the trigger.
- rixed 5y agoIf you sell it in accordance to your state regulations, I guess there will be no problem. Isn't that basically the same as selling weapons? (I would appreciate if no worker of the rank would accept to collaborate with manufacturing any form of weapons, but we are well past the point where lay people make their own mind about these things)
- sudosysgen 5y agoIt's not the same as making and selling weapons. The key thing is that you're assisting the client in hitting that particular target. How many states do you know where that's explicitly legal? The only one I know is Russia.
- cutemonster 5y agoMaybe it's more comparable to selling torture equipment (If, say, Saudi Arabia tracks down a journalist because of NSO, then, what might follow thereafter)