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by simion314 1677 days ago
Can an upset judge decide to put the NSO leaders and employees on a terrorist list? They could argue it was an attack on national security if they can show some important person from US would have been hacked by a foreign government.

Then if EU could put the same guys also on the list maybe there would be some effects.
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JumpCrisscross 1677 days ago
> Can an upset judge decide to put the NSO leaders and employees on a terrorist list?

They can hold them in contempt, which leads to arrest warrants. Default judgements can then enable the creditor, in this case Apple, to start seizing assets. But TL; DR no, a judge can't put someone on a terrorist list; that's a national security and thus executive function.

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monocasa 1677 days ago
> Can an upset judge decide to put the NSO leaders and employees on a terrorist list?

For not replying to an EULA suit? I sure hope not, as much as I'd like to see NSO nailed to the wall.

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Dma54rhs 1677 days ago
At least one of the founders can be found from American homesoil NYC but we know very well nothing will come out of it because of the Israeli love story Americans have.
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nazgulsenpai 1677 days ago
I'm talking about the discovery process. Will we learn anything we don't know already if NSO isn't required to cooperate? Probably not.
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corin_ 1677 days ago
A piece of advice I was given once and try to remember to follow is to, when commenting online, think "does this comment seem wrong if read out of context".

For example you wouldn't have had to come back to explain the context of your comment if your "I strongly doubt anything will come of this." had ended with "..come of this in discovery."

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