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Selling Turkey a WhatsApp 0day and operating the C&C servers for use in a war zone isn't contributing to peace and Israels survival, it's a war crime. NSO employees should probably be jailed the moment they leave the country.

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How justifying the actions you mentioned but how is that a war crime?

Seems more like ‘war’ than a ‘war crime’

If you are Raytheon and you sell someone a rocket, maybe come to their country and teach their personnel how to fire it, that's fine. When they decide to use it, you are not involved.

That is decidedly not what NSO is doing. They run the C&C servers.

You are entitled to your own definition of what is and what is not a war crime, but the rest of the world is not obligated to agreed with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime

Asssuming they are running C&C servers as you suggest, which international law of war did that break?

They are mercenaries, of course.

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