Cyber Vigilantism... an unappealing last resort...

For all the structural barriers, for all the consequences, there are still those who choose to resist—some loudly, some anonymously, some without ever touching a line of code. Though rare, acts of digital defiance against surveillance states, war profiteers, and corporate abusers do happen.

The Infamous NSO Group

NSO Group, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, best known for its notorious spyware, Pegasus, is marketed as a tool for "fighting terrorism". Pegasus has instead been widely used by authoritarian regimes and governments to spy on journalists, dissidents, activists, and political opponents.

The Empire Strikes Back...

The battle lines have been drawn, and the war isn’t between technologies anymore. It’s between the old priesthood of the command-line cult and the new empire of click-next-to-glory convenience.

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