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bigyabaiyesterday at 9:42 PM1 replyview on HN

All of them are complicit. You only need ~50 greedy sociopaths to work at Persona, and 10,000 dumb-as-rocks engineers hyped to work at Microsoft/OpenAI and "stop the bad guys" or whatever the boogeyman du-jour is.

We saw it with Bitlocker, we saw it with Client Side Scanning, we see it with Salt Typhoon. Most people that work on weaponized surveillance systems are entirely apathetic, or see themselves as righteous. Even when the system is known to be bugged, obviously flawed, or outright controlled by a foreign adversary.


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globalnodeyesterday at 10:29 PM

oh thats a good point, kind of like the military or how propaganda demonizes the enemy during a war, its us vs them.