Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms
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Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms
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Re: Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms
#2Later it will be revealed the user posting support tickets is actually a CIA operative... Its going to get juicy!
Re: Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms
#3Later it will be revealed the user posting support tickets is actually a CIA operative... Its going to get juicy!
We could have more political stories on HN, fewer of them knocked off the front page by flagging, as they are today, if it wasn't for the people who took every such story as an opportunity to inject substance-free snark into the site.
Unfortunately, there's no real way to make that happen, so instead, we'll keep doing what we do now: patrolling the front page and killing stories that present too many opportunities for comments like yours.
It's too bad, that comment! Usually, when I read a comment like this, I click through the profile looking for other terrible comments to flag, and usually when I do that, I end up wading through a cistern of crap and malevolence. Not in your case! Anybody who can write comments that start with "I work for an EMR provider and..." has something to contribute to the site. Why muddy those contributions with stuff like this?
Re: Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms
#4Its makes me sad to think a government of a nation with so little prosperity somehow has money to spend on this kind of shit.
Re: Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms
#5Its makes me sad to think a government of a nation with so little prosperity somehow has money to spend on this kind of shit.
Spying on your citizens is prosperity in a totalitarian government like Pakistan. They will do anything and everything to hold onto control.
Re: Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms
#6Later it will be revealed the user posting support tickets is actually a CIA operative... Its going to get juicy!
We could have more political stories on HN, fewer of them knocked off the front page by flagging, as they are today, if it wasn't for the people who took every such story as an opportunity to inject substance-free snark into the site. Unfortunately, there's no real way to make that happen, so instead, we'll keep doing what we do now: patrolling the front page and killing stories that present too many opportunities fo…
Instead of killing off the story through flagging, why not just disable commenting on the story?
Seems like banning / downmodding users should work just fine, instead of killing off the whole story.
Re: Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
We could have more political stories on HN, fewer of them knocked off the front page by flagging, as they are today, if it wasn't for the people who took every such story as an opportunity to inject substance-free snark into the site. Unfortunately, there's no real way to make that happen, so instead, we'll keep doing what we do now: patrolling the front page and killing stories that present too many opportunities fo…
Instead of killing off the story through flagging, why not just disable commenting on the story? Seems like banning / downmodding users should work just fine, instead of killing off the whole story.
That's not a feature of HN. It's mostly not HN that is forcing political stories off the site, although HN's moderators have confirmed repeatedly that such flagging is appropriate given the site guidelines.
Re: Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms
#8Its makes me sad to think a government of a nation with so little prosperity somehow has money to spend on this kind of shit.
Lots of countries are filthy rich when you consider the fact that a select few get to spend all the money. Ghaddafi, for example, had over $200 billion because he "owned" everything in Libya.
Re: Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms
#9Later it will be revealed the user posting support tickets is actually a CIA operative... Its going to get juicy!
We could have more political stories on HN, fewer of them knocked off the front page by flagging, as they are today, if it wasn't for the people who took every such story as an opportunity to inject substance-free snark into the site. Unfortunately, there's no real way to make that happen, so instead, we'll keep doing what we do now: patrolling the front page and killing stories that present too many opportunities fo…
Every story is an opportunity to snark. You should ban the account that made the comment not suppress the controversial information. The information that FinFisher supports/profits/enables oppressive governments should not be hidden just because you don't like the comments.
Re: Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms
#10Does it honestly surprise anyone that Pakistan is a customer of FinFisher, given the history of their ISI service?
I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm seriously.
State actors were a target customer for FinFisher, and it isn't that hard to figure out probably customers. Saudi Arabia tried to get Moxie to help them spy on its citizens, so I imagine they are a good bet too.