Re: BoringGreen Re: Destroyed @Matt Bryant
"Mebbe. FinFisher isn't likely to be a high-profile company...." 1 - what have they got to lose, having already lost a lucrative line of business, and - 2 - they can simply dissolve and recreate themselves as a new company elsewhere. They are very likely to get a sympathetic ear from most Wesern legal systems.
"....And we've previously gone over how some of us believe this power can be abused...." The morality of the users of FinFisher's products are irrelevant. For years your fellow handwringers have tried lawfare against arms manufacturers, claiming they are responsible for the atrocities that have been committed with their products, and in every case that argument has been rejected. All it would take would be for FinFisher to provide balancing evidence of their product being used for good (such as for catching Internet paedo gangs), plus they can quite easily argue that they did not have any specific knowledge of how their end users were using their products. Despite how you want to realign reality, the simple and legal facts are FinFisher made a legal product and distributed it legally with the knowledge and authorization of the German government, and Wikileaks are potentially liable for damaging their business by illegally distributing unauthorized copies of the FinFisher software. You really need to try some research for a change, starting with ACTA (in force across all 22 EU member states and the majority of the developed World) - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
".....I wonder if you and I can ever find common ground in this." Unlikely given your continued denial of facts, laws, reason and logic.
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