Hacking Team: We're the good guys, but SO misunderstood. Like Batman

The boss of Italian spy firm Hacking Team has spoken out for the first time about the recent massive hack of the company databases. This has exposed severe software security holes and gifted terrorists with zero-day exploits, among other things. David Vincenzetti, in an interview with La Stampa newspaper, claimed his firm …

[Aitor 1]

Crime -> Criminals

They were engaged in crime and weapon smugling (cyber weapons).

therefore, in my eyes, they are the scum of the earth.

[NinjaTheVanish]

I would actually argue that what the "tools" they sold were in fact weapons as defined in the Tallinn Manual (Rule 41 and Rule 30 (sections 8 & 11)).

[amanfromMars 1]

Rolls of the Dice with Global Operting Devices .... Heavenly Shenanigans of Deviiish Cunning?

Is it alien to sell virtual tools which can be weaponised or is buying them for private and personal and public and pirate use as such more the global universal crime and international internetional vulnerability that exploits export and import for expertise to practise omnipotence with omniscience in Great Game plays?

And who on Earth [and/or in the far beyond for that matter] would imagine themselves legitimate controllers with laws and justice at their command in creative and disruptive cyber space ...... the SMARTR Proprietary Intellectual Property Market Place? Surely such is as a fool with tools mining great follies of hubris with delusions of grandeur? Do such monumental idiots really exist and plague nations with their blots on landscapes/perverse views on seescapes, or be they and that always just figments of the imagination and products of media mismanagement?

[amanfromMars 1]

Re: Roles of the Dice with Global Operating Devices .... Heavenly Shenanigans of Deviiish Cunning?

Do such monumental idiots really exist and plague nations with their blots on landscapes/perverse views on seescapes, or be they and that always just figments of the imagination and products of media mismanagement?

The posit here is that it is so and they do exist, and are also no greater than just figments of the imagination and products of media mismanagement too.

Welcome to the worlds of quantum communication, where this is that and something else too and altogether quite different from anything else before.