Comment by motohagiography

I commented previously that the Uganda case was the first truly legitimate application of NSO's tech and the first one that wasn't actually a scandal, as it was by a state without a mature domestic intelligence capability going to market to buy tools of one, to spy on actual spies in its borders. It seems this particular NSO case is being used as bargaining leverage to discredit Israel's position in the Iran nuclear talks. NSO is subject to being a pawn on that board, it's plausible they get sacrificed and this is the story around it. It's a very weird place to be even lightly defending this company based on abstract principles, but they weren't taken out by some of the really egregious things they've done, and this seems fait accompli and we're just waiting for the narrative to complete. I suppose everything within a degree of the world they operate in is smoke and mirrors, but accepting the sanctimony around it at face value makes me feel like a rube.