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Mossad has started funding the worst of the worst of IT startups. Normally, a headline such as this would only be seen on very questionable websites, but the source for this story is the Israeli Jerusalem Post<\/a> itself \u2014 and further: the Israeli Mossad<\/em> are far from the only ones.<\/p>\n

The Jerusalem Post<\/em> portrays this event as if it were any random story: \u201cMossad<\/em> enters the world of Venture Capitalism\u201d, with the addition that the funding entity, named Libertad Ventures, is \u201cexpected to put out another call for applications to develop cutting-edge technology for Mossad\u2019s<\/em> spying purposes\u201d.<\/p>\n

This raises so many uncomfortable questions.<\/p>\n

And before somebody gets the idea that this is an Israeli thing, the United States CIA already has a similar funding program, called Facebook. Oops, that was a typo, scratch that: it\u2019s called In-Q-Tel<\/a>. Britain\u2019s surveillance agency GCHQ is also already running a similar program, which is even brazen enough to call it the GCHQ Cyber Accelerator<\/a>, founded just last year \u2014 so this seems to be a somewhat recent thing, even though the CIA boasts \u201cinvestments\u201d back to 2015.<\/p>\n

Rather, the question are along these lines:<\/p>\n

When all of the technical community has been trying for the past fifty years to make our data networks, communication lines, and data storage resilient, secure, and safe, why are governments spending tax money \u2014 money collected by force from this very technical community! \u2014 spending tax money funding what the technical community would probably describe as sociopaths, people who are trying their best to be bad<\/em> actors not just for the technical community, but for humanity at large?<\/p>\n

These are people who are developing vulnerabilities, methods of breaking and entering, methods of making data and communications lines in-<\/em>secure. Put differently, if they were doing the exact same thing in a different country than ours and not working for the government, we would probably call them \u201corganized crime\u201d.<\/p>\n

This is why it makes it so infuriating<\/em> that a government is using tax money to fund the kind of activity we\u2019ve literally been trying for five decades<\/em> to eliminate from the technical community, and they\u2019re doing it for short term gains against not just a rival government, but against their own civilian population as well. Against the whole world\u2019s civilian population, actually.<\/p>\n

If this were any other industry, this activity \u2014 developing technologies to hit millions of people when they\u2019re trusting and vulnerable \u2014 would be called sociopathic, at best.<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s also the aspect that this is venture capitalism<\/em> \u2014 they\u2019re effectively gambling<\/em>, using taxpayer money, that these unwanted actors will be commercially successful.<\/em> Disgusting doesn\u2019t begin to describe this recent phenomenon.<\/p>\n

The news here is not that the surveillance agencies are using tax money to fund sociopathic entrepreneurs whose entire business idea is to deprive people of liberty. The specific news item in the Jerusalem Post is that the Israeli Mossad joins<\/em> at least the US and UK in doing so. This has apparently been a disturbingly accepted practice that has not been discussed publicly at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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