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Inaction is an action. Facilitating the development and sale of malware while benefiting from it through tax revenue and hard power with full awareness is, to m
by pona-a 2y ago
Inaction is an action. Facilitating the development and sale of malware while benefiting from it through tax revenue and hard power with full awareness is, to me, enablement. The action taken against such vendors proved nominal, as they still continue to operate with no shortage of news stories like this one.
It would be naive to think the government itself would not use such a powerful source of intel. Regardless of your political affiliation, states act according to their self-interest. In international politics, the only constraints are what you can do, and how much you can get away with. If one can find a reasonable motive and prove a possible causal link, absent of further evidence, the prior is guilty.
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- alephnerd 2y agoit's much more prosaic than that - it's just A LOT of money. Israel isn't a signatory of the Wassenar Arrangement, which helped Israeli startups rapidly corner the 0-Day and Exploit Market. Before the 2010s, the Israeli software scene was largely targeting commodity use cases by trying to undercut existing vendors like Cisco or Arista in price. Israeli companies saw a market opening that could differentiate them and decided to take it. It's a segment that would have existed in the US, France, or CEE but regulations prevented it from emerging.