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> These vendors are enabling the proliferation of dangerous hacking tools, arming governments that would not be able to develop these capabilities in-house. I
by psychphysic 4y ago
> These vendors are enabling the proliferation of dangerous hacking tools, arming governments that would not be able to develop these capabilities in-house.
I wonder what this means? Why does it matter if the nation couldn't make the tool themselves?
I might be reading into it. But is there an idea that technological sophistication itself imbues morals? And these unsophisticated nations are amoral?
Or maybe even a might is right mindset?
I'm surely reading too much into this but for whatever reason it stood out to me.
- mhoad 4y agoThis might not be clear if you don’t normally have any interaction with this kind of “policy” friendly language but it’s making a point that it’s falling into the hands of particularly authoritarian governments who use it to target political enemies, journalists and human rights types and that they certainly didn’t have that capability domestically until someone packaged it up and sold it to them. They seem to be acknowledging some parallels to this kind of scenario as to the nuclear proliferation problem and that many governments aren’t ok with irresponsible sellers who will put these things in the hands of anyone with money.