[ignoramous]

> Why do people work on such projects?

>> Maybe you're on H1B and if you get let go you have to go back to Sri Lanka...

I mean that's there too, but in this case, the guy who ran this spyware op was a former IDF turned chief of Facebook in Israel, later promoted to CISO for all of Meta.

[reaperman]

Yes, I generally blame management. But sometimes I blame the engineers when its obvious they had other good options.

[ignoramous]

> I blame the engineers when its obvious they had other good options

Their manager was promoted to c-suite for running a covert worldwide spyware op (that also informed the company's M&A strategy). I'd reserve most of my blame on corporate culture that incentivized & rewarded such orgs and its management.

[spencerflem]

I think its fair to blame both, usually. Got enough hate left in my heart for it

[racional]

It's important to note that the "Guy" was not just with the IDF, but with Unit 8200.

Otherwise you'd be essentially saying "Hey look out, the guy who ran this op was an Israeli" (because nearly every male Israeli serves in the IDF).

[ignoramous]

> important to note ... "Guy" [was] with Unit 8200

Good thing they're less Fascist and more upstanding & liberal, yeah? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/12/world/middlee...

> every male Israeli serves in the IDF

Shame on them if they continue to be associated with an institution found guilty by the International courts of occupation, torture, sexual assault, dispossession, crimes against humanity.

https://x.com/wattheactualfuq/status/1818340892651975052 / https://ghostarchive.org/archive/sx6lC

The burden is not mine or anyone else's.