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What is the purpose of your original comment? Do you disagree with one of the parent's assertions that (this will keep evolving) (keep getting worse) (we might
by hammock 2y ago
What is the purpose of your original comment? Do you disagree with one of the parent's assertions that (this will keep evolving) (keep getting worse) (we might as well act as if we are getting surveilled) (Too much incentive to not have adversarial actors)? It doesn't seem as if you do, yet some would interpret your tone as argumentative, or unsubstantiated alarmism
- tptacek 2y agoI would sum my original comment up as "NSO doesn't matter". It's an interesting CCC talk. It's worth digging into what NSO implants do. There's not much bigger-picture stuff to pull out of it. By all means, sue them, sanction them, proscribe them, whatever it is you want to do to make NSO less profitable, I'm fine with it. But don't pretend that's solving the broad social problem of CNE operations. Everybody does it, and most people don't need NSO to do it; they have other, better vendors to work with.
- hammock 2y agoOK that's helpful thanks. I'm curious, is CNE illegal?
- tptacek 2y agoIt depends on where you are, but generally being a CNE vendor isn't, so long as you're not selling to criminal organizations. If you're doing enough KYC to be reasonably sure you're selling exclusively to agencies of governments your home state doesn't have export controls for, you're probably fine. Actually conducting operations, totally different story.