It would be the cruelest of ironies if folks who are falling out of Reddit and trying to build a new community here on a community-controlled, non-corporate network were to find themselves getting sucked right back into invasive techbro-capitalism through a backdoor. But that's exactly what might happen....
In 2017 Meta (Facebook, Instagram) approached the mercenary group NSO - which has been sanctioned by the US government for developing a cyberweapon that destroys all security on an iPhone - to purchase spyware which would infect the Apple devices of their users so they could be more easily surveilled
Spez to Zuckerberg? - Out of the frying pan, into the fire (fedia.io)
It would be the cruelest of ironies if folks who are falling out of Reddit and trying to build a new community here on a community-controlled, non-corporate network were to find themselves getting sucked right back into invasive techbro-capitalism through a backdoor. But that's exactly what might happen....
Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users (2020 article) (www.vice.com)
In 2017 Meta (Facebook, Instagram) approached the mercenary group NSO - which has been sanctioned by the US government for developing a cyberweapon that destroys all security on an iPhone - to purchase spyware which would infect the Apple devices of their users so they could be more easily surveilled