TFA - "democratic" hacking is good: "How one treats intelligence activity or law enforcement activity driven under democratic oversight within a lawfully elected representative government is very different from that of an authoritarian regime."
How is obligating big tech to cooperate with Western intelligence agencies a positive move for democracies?
[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/a-brief... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies
The distinction that this article makes is that our clandestine operations have "democratic oversight." To be clear, I think the author would say that they are attempting journalistic neutrality, but they're giving considerable space to the argument that democratic clandestine services deserve a different standard.