It's really not surprising that we don't hear about someone speaking up - would you be willing to risk doing so (even anonymously) after working on projects tha

It's really not surprising that we don't hear about someone speaking up - would you be willing to risk doing so (even anonymously) after working on projects that you _knew_ that were monitoring everything on the internet? About who made these tools, I would say that this was built through a combination of different people: - very patriotic individuals: e.g. someone who joins the military and gets a military sponsored world class education in comp sci; or someone who gets recruited at an early age on the campus of berkeley/stanford/yale/mit/etc (remember how spies were recruited back in the days) - consultants: Palantir, Booz Allen and many more - buying outsourced tech (e.g. from startups in the Valley/Boston/Penn/Virginia/Maryland or Israel) - captured black hats in exchange for softer sentences - renegades from big tech companies: i.e. ex-google employees. You'd be surprised how pissed off some people can be at their previous employees and to what lengths they might go to hurt them