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Yep. 'sploit sellers from original researchers to marketplaces inherently trade greed for the public good, and so are less ethically constrained from not also selling into BRICS/nonaligned markets as well to double or triple their money. It's dirty shit.

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Are you suggesting that western exploit sellers are selling bugs to western governments and also BRICS? that sounds not very likely.

All of this stuff is very complicated ethically, but I don't think you can simply say that it is always in the public good to expose bugs (stuxnet is a good example of a bug chain avoiding a far deadlier outcome)..

I've personally worked for vendors of software and done offensive research, and now I do neither.

GP is suggesting that not all exploit researchers are “western” or western aligned. Some of them are even nation state funded, and they’re often quite good.

Yep, I don't think there's any disagreement with that, especially when you look at things like Tianfu cup in general. Any country that can, essentially wants to do offensive cyber.

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