Anyone knows dev working within that industry? Any insight in the rationalization of creating tools to essentially spy on the whole wide world?
Always curious to see how we can rationalize these kind of purpose in life.
Always curious to see how we can rationalize these kind of purpose in life.
1) money
2) the belief that if you don't build it then someone else will, so might as well be paid for it first
At least I imagine that's the only way people who build spyware and blockchain technologies can sleep at night.
I think the major driving force is machismo and competition. People I've met have into this sort of thing have an image of themselves as Matrix-style hackers. It's easy for business types to exploit that.
Be the best hacker working with the best hackers in the world.
1) money
(Actually, you might want to read a few works of fiction which feature well-written Evil Geniuses. Or some "I was a CIA agent..." biographies.)
I think it's important to remember that CIA agents are people, and not necessarily evil or geniuses.
The one former CIA agent I know is to this day haunted by the time he killed a civilian during the Vietnam war over fifty years ago.
".. Developing technology to prevent and investigate terror and crime"
I guess that their initial intentions were good, but a lot of clients (govs) abused it. It's still their fault for not acknowledging or putting breaks for these kind of actions.