Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "This Israeli Company Is Spying On Everyone..." video.

  1.  @Franseven : The average person cannot repair a new car, bought within the last 10 years, anymore than they can fix their own phone. They’re black boxes now, too.
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  2. Jeez! In Cyberpunk 2077 there’s a sinister corporation called Netwatch. I didn’t realise this was not just a dystopian fiction! It actually already exists, worldwide! And it’s called NSO! Except they exist in a world that never had the giant net-crash that happened in Cyberpunk, which means they’re already EVERYWHERE! We need worldwide, binding laws and police for this stuff! And who’s surprised that it would be Apple, of all corps, that spotted and outed the NSO? The phrase, “It takes one to know one,” springs to mind. Apple probably sees the NSO less as a threat and more just an alarming competitor in their back yard!
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  3. Well, stories like this throw a lot of light on that, right? They don’t want you messing with their secure spy networks. I mean, Jeez! In Cyberpunk 2077 there’s a sinister corporation called Netwatch. I didn’t realise this was not just a dystopian fiction! It actually already exists, worldwide! And it’s called NSO! Except they exist in a world that never had the giant net-crash that happened in Cyberpunk, which means they’re already EVERYWHERE! We need worldwide, binding laws and police for this stuff! And who’s surprised that it would be Apple, of all corps, that spotted and outed the NSO? The phrase, “It takes one to know one,” springs to mind. Apple probably sees the NSO less as a threat and more just an alarming competitor in their back yard!
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  4.  @AngelLoeza : And only growing.
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  5.  @hjqw1pe : That’s unchecked, rampant, unregulated capitalism for you. The problem with the markets all being global is that you can’t just appoint a sheriff to take down the bad actors and enforce any single interpretation of the law. It would take an act of supreme determination on the part of the largest economy, the USA, rounding up whatever allies they can gather, to lay down hard and fast rules that the rest of the world would have to fall in line behind; like the right to repair your own property, the right to OWN your own media and video games, not rent them, the right to have simplified TOS’s that anyone at an average, basic level of education could understand, and the right to NEVER be forced to sign contracts AFTER they’ve already purchased their items (which applies to TV’s, computers, video games and soon, everything else) or get locked out of using your ALREADY PURCHASED product, and so on. The problem is that American politicians can’t agree on a definition of treason or murder, let alone the subtle nuances of trade laws. And they’re so rotten that any lobby group can persuade them to reverse their campaign promises with eye watering sums of cash. So, get used to the CyberPunk dystopia, kid. Looks like there’s no way to avoid it other than civil collapse or some other world wide disaster that changes how we live? I just can’t myself eating the flesh of my enemies in a Mad Max world and saying, “Well, at least we stopped Apple, Tw@er and the NSO from running our lives,” and actually being happy about my life. Can you?
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