[foolmeonce]

> If NSO/HackingTeam were in the business of selling physical weapons to foreign governments, would they have been responsible for a government killing journalists with said weapons?

If they were in the businesses of selling weapons of war and caught instead selling covert weapons with no legitimate use in open warfare to countries that disclose illegal acts of war to them, I think they belong in the Hague being tried for war crimes.

(After that, I suppose they can be referred to human rights courts as a defacto part of each government that had violations. Since they were active participants in the use of the weapon as shown by the phone list, they have no argument that they were not active members of every conspiracy involving their service.)

[maltalex]

> If they were in the businesses of selling weapons of war and caught instead selling covert weapons with no legitimate use in open warfare to countries that disclose illegal acts of war to them, I think they belong in the Hague being tried for war crimes.

If they were doing that, I agree.

But these weapons have legitimate uses in law enforcement and why do you think that the client government disclose their illegal acts to NSO?