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Do they make these inhouse or purchase off the shelf/black market? How do they get these tools?

• pmck91 12y ago
  I'm really interested in knowing this, I wonder how many engineers they have working on projects like these and what they're told.
• Someone1234 12y ago
  In the UK: Contractors. Military contractors in particular are a huge industry and they've moved into producing surveillance equipment as a natural progress of what they produced previously. They also buy from abroad (although mostly from the US and Israel, who both produce software like this at a number of shops).
• DanBC 12y ago
  GCHQ employ very many people. Some of those people are paid to find exploits. http://www.gchq.gov.uk/careers/pages/index.aspx http://www.gchq.gov.uk/careers/pages/index.aspx They're currently recruiting: http://www.gchq.gov.uk/careers/Pages/Cyber-and-Technical-Operations.aspx http://www.gchq.gov.uk/careers/Pages/Cyber-and-Technical-Ope... > Developing creative solutions to technical problems on live operations, this is a high pressured environment. You'll need to be both flexible and focused. You'll be using a wide range of technical ability rather than deep specialist skills, but you'll need an interest and aptitude in network security and coding. You'll have plenty of opportunities to develop your skills, but a technical qualification or experience in low level software, network security, malware analysis, penetration testing or vulnerability discovery and mitigation would be useful. Most importantly you should have a willingness to learn.