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NSO is not the problem, secrecy and lack of public awareness are the problem. This scandal is good because it's shining light on the power that governments can
by dasil003 5y ago
NSO is not the problem, secrecy and lack of public awareness are the problem. This scandal is good because it's shining light on the power that governments can wield in the shadows which most people are unaware of.
The solution is to keep shining light and putting pressure on technology makers to improve security, end-to-end encryption, and keeping the power in the hands of individual users. The pressure piece is critical since the natural business incentives to centralize and collect more data make us more vulnerable to centralized surveillance and compromise.
- tehjoker 5y agoNo they are also a problem.
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- UncleMeat 5y agoIt is stupendously difficult to make vuln-free software to the level where actors like NSO are unable to produce exploits. In many ways, we don't even really know how to do it, especially if you as a vendor don't write literally your entire stack. The folks at Google and Apple can rewrite everything in memory safe languages and use the absolute state of the art in static analysis and still fail because some Qualcomm chip in the bluetooth stack has a vuln or because of some side-channel exploit that works around the assumptions of any formalism. NSO are selling weapons to authoritarian governments who use those weapons to identify and either jail or murder people they don't like. That's bad. End of story.