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amanfromMars 1 Tue 14 Sep 07:09 [2109140709] ...... asks on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2021/09/13/apple_ios_macos_security_fixes/

Who's leading Whom a Merry Dance up the Garden Path to Nowhere Worth Going?

"Our latest discovery of yet another Apple zero day employed as part of NSO Group’s arsenal further illustrates that companies like NSO Group are facilitating 'despotism-as-a-service' for unaccountable government security agencies," Citizen Lab researchers said in a post on Monday. "Regulation of this growing, highly profitable, and harmful marketplace is desperately needed."

What is the reason, in the case of the above not being fake news, the NSO Group and its backers are not proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the US and its allies? If it were a Russian or a Chinese or a Taliban or an emergent stateless organisation responsible for such activities, you can be sure Uncle Sam would be proclaiming that to all and sundry in a flash.

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amanfromMars 1 Tue 14 Sep 11:22 [2109141122] ...... adding a tad more to the conversation on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2021/09/13/apple_ios_macos_security_fixes/

Re: Who's leading Whom a Merry Dance up the Garden Path to Nowhere Worth Going?

My dear AMFM, the rules of the game are very clear.

If you attack civilians with bombs or guns, you are a terrorist. If you make the bombs or guns used by the terrorist, you are a respected member of the "Defence" Industry. And so it is with spyware.

NSO can, and are, using the same defence as Smith & Wesson, Remington, Glock and everyone else in this business. "We just make the tools". The odds of Uncle Sam, in particular, chastising arms manufacturers are lower than the surface temperature of your home planet. ..... Androgynous Cupboard

Those are the old misguiding rules, Androgynous Cupboard. Play by them at your peril for the price exacted for not being bang up to date with regulatory changes is similar to that suffered by software and captivated clients running on ancient hardware with pathetically slow and limiting processors/chips/computers.

Such an advance though is perfectly normal and fully to be expected and lauded for it confirms and announces progress has been made rather than it being thought hindered and/or halted.

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amanfromMars 1 Tue 14 Sep 16:01 [2109141601] ..... still chatting and spilling beans on https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/13/apple_ios_macos_security_fixes/

Re: Who's leading Whom a Merry Dance up the Garden Path to Nowhere Worth Going?

Here is news of a General who recognises the catastrophic deficit in UKGBNI Command and Control of Future Fields and would welcome what is no less than absolutely necessary outside of military command help ....... https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/9/14/ai-edge-computing-top-priorities-for-uk-strategic-command

However, the abiding difficulty one may experience is that the extremely strange and fundamentally novel nature of such as are now certainly the most powerful and energetic of leading theatres of executive and populous engagement results so oft in news of the necessary help being free available from home sources being dismissed thusly ......

Thank you for expressing an interest in AWE 20. The paper sift has now been completed.

During the paper sift stage of the project each product was marked on its own merits by a team of Military and MOD personnel as well as engineers from DE&S. It was decided as a panel that AWE 20 would not be the right trials arena to test and understand the technology. As I’m sure you can understand we have a limited time to investigate a wide range of products from a wide question set and as such the panel had to ensure that AWE was the most appropriate arena to test the products. Products such as yours will be passed onto relevant project teams / TDUs to ensure awareness of the product is raised and I would encourage you to attend the VIP day to gain further exposure for the technology.

The clear and present danger then, should such be a persistent situation, is that leading technology is engaged and employed and developed further beyond the reach of home based teams by switched-on foreigners/Savvy SMARTR Competitors for such as may very well be new knowledge abhors a vacuum and will naturally migrate to where it is appreciated and where reward can be enjoyed.

And anonymous dumb downvotes on the matters revealed here are somewhat indicative of the problem.

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