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Ars Technica has a small gallery of the latest Wikileaks dump,  consisting of brochures from companies that sell malicious software to  governments for use in spying on their citizens. I spoke at length with  one of the sources for these and we agreed that it was freakishly weird  and scary — I’ve spent the past two months in a bit of a paranoid  stupor as a result. On the other hand, I have seen enough product  brochures to know that companies often stretch the truth when they’re  pimping their products, and I wouldn’t expect truth-in-advertising  ethics from vichy nerds that specialize in violating the UN Declaration  of Human Rights.
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Ars Technica has a small gallery of the latest Wikileaks dump, consisting of brochures from companies that sell malicious software to governments for use in spying on their citizens. I spoke at length with one of the sources for these and we agreed that it was freakishly weird and scary — I’ve spent the past two months in a bit of a paranoid stupor as a result. On the other hand, I have seen enough product brochures to know that companies often stretch the truth when they’re pimping their products, and I wouldn’t expect truth-in-advertising ethics from vichy nerds that specialize in violating the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

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