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Is it not more like blaming the people selling ransomware tools?

• dariusj18 5y ago
  Only if their customers are state actors
• kenniskrag 5y ago
  the definition of ransomeware tools can be hard imho. There is still an ongoing discussion about what are hacking tools and sometimes wireshark is called as example. E.g. they describe their tools as: > develops best-in-class technology to help government agencies detect and prevent a wide-range of local and global threats.
• inglor 5y ago
  People selling ransomware tools are not legal companies regulated by the Israeli and US government. If NSO didn't pay income tax or wasn't regulated by governments I'd agree. To be clear: I think the poor job regulating tools like Pegasus by governments is due to their incompetence in regulating this sort of weapon not to gain something. I also think a lot of this PR is because NSO likes it to get more clients as this sort of PR shows that their tool works - you never hear this sort of PR about their many many competitors in this space (like Verint, HackingTeam etc). We are enabling them instead of shutting them down which is unfortunate. Similarly if you were making stealth fighter jets underground and selling them to dictators it'd be more like ransomware.
  • imwillofficial 5y ago
    > To be clear: I think the poor job regulating tools like Pegasus by governments is due to their incompetence in regulating this sort of weapon not to gain something. What data do you have to back up this belief? Because as the number one customer for these types of tools, it sure doesn’t seem like incompetence to me. What exactly changed after the Snowden leaks? The US government isn’t in the business of protecting your secrets.