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I wouldn't say that being the most morally bankrupt (actively working on the attack on journalists, critics and minorities) automatically qualifies someone as a

I wouldn't say that being the most morally bankrupt (actively working on the attack on journalists, critics and minorities) automatically qualifies someone as a "most prized mind", it's not like they are developing all of those zero days inhouse, they buy them for the most part. It seems to me like you are overestimating the skills of people that just don't have any moral barrier while underestimating the skills of many proper security researchers. Companies like NSO are most of the time able to do what they do because they shake the right hands and get the right support (or the right people to look the other way), not because they have some special people that you can't find anywhere else.

DisjointedHunt 5y ago
I'd recommend listening to episode 47 of the Darknet diaries and see if you still hold those beliefs that these people are indeed morally bankrupt https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/47/ https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/47/ The thing with this line of work is that one mans ethics becomes another mans sin. The tl;dr of that episode is that some of these people were led on to believe they were actually targeting criminals and terrorists. It later became clear that was not the case. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and all that. It would surprise you that even the most noble of pursuits in engineering have very cruel applications in war.