He may have a point..
tinfoil hat conjecture time:
Hacking Team have been trading "software solutions" to.. less than desireable customers... who are, if not under embargo, then at least under heavy scrutiny.
It's not inconceivable that our dear vulnerability hoarders have had a nice request to ..reconsider.. some of their contracts in the past, and flat out ignored this. After all, it's a small world, and doing business with regimes that are ..not currently in favour.. will get you Looked At by some people with Opinions, and the clout to do something.
Now officially [Agency X] can't shut a business down. But Accidents do happen, and there's a fairly long list of organisations who are quite capable of making such an accident happen, directly or by proxy. In the end the result is the same: Hacking Team is for all practical purposes dead in the water, the vectors they used will be plugged ( which may or may not be acceptable collateral damage) and the customers-who-are-not-in-favour will lose their spyholes. No actual victims, and a good chance the next set of negotiations with a dodgy "data solutions provider" will only need a nudge and a wink.
It's almost ..Italian Style.... ;)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
