Here’s a problem: Saudi Arabia has a real terrorist problem, they have a legit need for LI kit, including end point exploits. Now what?
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Replying to @thegrugq
ISIS targeted Saudi Arabia just last month. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/04/saudi-arabia-bombings-jeddah-medina-prophets-mosque-qatif … ISIS uses smartphones w/ secure messengers for comms.
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Replying to @thegrugq
ISIS kit recovered from an interdicted cell in Saudi Arabia. Note the smartphones for WhatsApp/Telegram, w/ tapepic.twitter.com/4fOLrrxpUS
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Replying to @thegrugq
So here is the problem: repressive regimes that do bad things to their people also have legitimate reasons to need LI kit. What do you do?
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Replying to @thegrugq
Probably the same as supplying other LE gadgets (guns, nightsticks, etc). Sometimes no is the right answer.
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Replying to @mattblaze @thegrugq
Most of the time, the reason they have a terrorism problem is closely linked to why they should not be sold machinery.
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Terrorism rarely gets defeated one terrorists at a time ; so their repressive apparatus is actually counter-productive.
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But that's an ecology argument. And likelihood they'll use kits against dissidents > likelihood use against terrorists.
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I don't mean they are an imperfect government since there is no other kind. Question is: how bad & how distorted?
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