Apple should use financial means to destroy these companies. Working at these companies should be a black mark on the records of the employees. I won't hire someone who worked at one of these companies. I know probably my own government tries to hack into people's phones, I don't want that either; my govt should not be selling their capabilities to other governments. If we make working at these companies something terrible on someone's jobs record, we might prevent people from going there.

Companies that do these kinds of things are a menace to society, because those tools get used for evil purposes (not just spying on terrorists). Plenty of other governments benefit from using these spy tools themselves, but we all know they fall into the hands of despotic governments like Saudi Arabia and they are used to harass and attempt to control journalists, people advocating against their governments.

What I'd like to see is Apple uses their enormous influence and financial power to sue these companies and drive them out of business. They should financially attack the companies doing this and make it known they will work to destroy them.