Is anyone surprised anymore to learn that their own government spies on them? I thought that we had all accepted our new surveillance overlords. /s<p>More seriously, how should the people of any country attempt to stop such shenanigans, short of a full blown revolution and civil war? Our elected officials, legislators, and judges seem to serve our incumbent masters, not the people.<p>Personally, I have lost any hope of a peaceful resolution to the growing threat of global tyranny, but I continue to hope we can find viable solutions that might avoid the resulting transitional anarchy.
Looks like the original source is <a href="https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3927410,00.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3927410...</a>, submitted here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29976454" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29976454</a>
Some of the companies in the field, in contrast to NSO, do have ethics committees to filter out obviously bad clients.<p>Once when guidelines were described to engineers a question was asked: Would Israel itself pass the ethics committee check?<p>The answer was "No. But..."