Or is that what Pegasus/NSO basically already provide, as a feature?
considering shell are mainly used for deeply corrupt ends, this isn't a far stretch. similarly, things that seem like duopolies today might well be revealed to be monopolies in reality if actual ownership records became public. i imagine the false public perception of a market that has fair competition is very valuable as it maintains the illusion of choice. similarly, regarding spying by USA; i imagine Crypto AG was/isn't the only CIA front.
They sold this to .gov and supposedly it was in use in the early '00s - and it provided ostensibly access to tracking financial and human trafficking data..
Think of it as a precurser to palantir and such - and there was a bunch of shady shit around this.
Here is just one sketchy story about it:
https://oye.news/news/world-news/epstein-the-maxwell-sisters...
but apparently they made counter-terrorism software and that this software was in use in the US intel comm and that it was also compromised...
Regardless of the truth of how it was used - the fact that the most notorious human trafficking/blackmailing operation yet exposed was directly related to providing counter-terrorism software to the USG is.... interesting.
Google the maxwell twins.
Got about halfway through before realising wrong twins.. lol
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