[mcantelon]

>Imo, the bigger question is why Hungary, Poland, Spain, Greece, and Cyprus (all countries part of the recent EU Spyware Scandal) [1] continue to allow their Interior Ministries to attack the phones of both domestic and foreign opponents, and are abusing "Spyware for political gain" [2].

It's also a national security issue given that Israel may be piggybacking on the spying.

[alephnerd]

The management console for a lot of these products tend to be hosted on-Prem behind fairly restricted network controls with traffic closely monitored by customers.

While this doesn't mean that there probably isn't some phoning in, it's extremely difficult to obfuscate.

That said, the act of purchasing a product like this can absolutely be used as leverage, but that's any sort of weapons sale (which this functionally is)