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Comment by snowwrestler | Hacker News Reader

U.S. weapons manufacturers receive a lot of criticism too, both domestically in the U.S. and internationally.

The comments here focus on NSO because the story is about what NSO did. This is computer tech kind of community so you’re going to see more computer weapon stories here than stories about improper use of rifles.

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The U.S sells super sophisticated weapons such as attack drones, F-15s or nuclear submarines. The tech behind these things is probably super interesting and there's a lot of software involved. If you look at the comments here, around 90% of them don't care about the tech at all but focus on bashing Israel. This isn't a tech story.

It would certainly be a news story if someone used a U.S. built submarine to attack the U.S. State Department.

You do realize it was Ugandans who actually ordered the hack yes?

And Israel also sells super sophisticated weapons like AWACS radars and surface-to-air missiles.

But there are clear understandings that e.g. nothing goes to China, and no fancy radars go even to untrustworthy places like Myanmar. NSO is still in a gray zone.

An Israeli company selling hacking services to every dictatorship and or corporation willing to pay? I hope you can see why that's bad.

And yes I'm acutely aware that the CIA literally ran torture training camps in the 1970s but two wrong don't make something right.

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