Lawmakers Concerned About U.S. Government’s Use of Foreign Spyware

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WASHINGTON — Senior lawmakers said they would investigate the government’s purchase and use of powerful spyware made by two Israeli hacking firms, as Congress passed a measure in recent days to try to rein in the proliferation of the hacking tools.

Representative Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, sent a letter last week to the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration asking for detailed information about the agency’s use of Graphite, a spyware tool produced by the Israeli company Paragon.

“Such use could have potential implications for U.S. national security, as well as run contrary to efforts to deter the broad proliferation of powerful surveillance capabilities to autocratic regimes and others who may misuse them,” Mr. Schiff wrote in the letter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/us/politics/spyware-israel-dea-fbi.html
 
The one common world wide web was a horrific mistake.

Having Google when you're wondering about something in the middle of the night is one thing. That's good. You remember who played Eddie in that thirty year old movie, and then you can sleep.

Having delicate information and control capabilities on a common internet, however, is insane. Our species has gone completely mad.
 
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