US immigration agents will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump administration to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.
The Department of Homeland Security first entered into a contract with Paragon, now owned by a US firm, in late 2024, under the Biden administration. But the $2m contract was put on hold pending a compliance review to make sure it adhered to an executive order that restricts the US government’s use of spyware, Wired reported at the time.
That pause has now been lifted, according to public procurement documents, which list US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) as the contracting agency.
Well well well. Isn’t it the real reason the west supports the genocide. By sending money there you can do “research” without having to worry about pesky stuff like privacy or human rights
Gaza is the future for America.
Exactly. It’s the canary in the coalmine.
This is how I see it as a US citizen. Our violence is boomeranging hard which ok I don’t wish it on others but yes absolutely this is the future of the US.
i wish. its the future of their colonies.
I sure hope nobody’s carpet bombed.
Like never again
I mean, USA would probably have a better society were it carpet-bombed and then rebuilt. Or at least were it to experience a big war on its territory. Like, despite their flaws, many of the EU countries, and many others. Many of your problems are from misunderstanding dignity and strength ; war teaches you to respect the weak and to understand that it’s a sacrifice to be strong. Unfortunately that means a lot of murder, and to do a lot of murder, you pay with ever more murder. So I don’t want for that to happen, but at the same time I’m not sure if there’s even any other way to teach these things.
You know, for those of us who are not Americans, such statements sound completely devoid of empathy, as if something could only worry you if it “were the future for America”. And it really seems a pattern. It’s as if any crime were only real for you all there if it were somehow directed against America. I’m not even talking about being tone deaf, it’s just really strange how American think.
that’s what i’m saying. they’ve already been tightening our restraints for decades now, and it’s only really a problem now that they need to pull the proverbial copper from the walls and do it to themselves.
i think this starts to make sense when you consider just how much nationalist propaganda they seem to be exposed to constantly, and its scary how ignorant some of them are of what happens outside their borders. and i mean ignorant, frankly some of them just seem hellbent on closing their ears and not listening to any of it. some just say heinous shit outright.
“you all” Nice.
Don’t take it literally.
Only enough empathy for 330M people?
You sound like a real grade-A asshole.
Less directed at than directed by. America is the premier purveyor of war crimes, ever since the Europeans fell off their game.
The violence of the empire once more turning inward is notable in the US today in the same way it was notable in France at the start of their Long Nineteenth Century or Japan during the Meiji Restoration or Russia in the October Revolution.
What starts here infests the rest of the world.
As if anybody in the Silicon Valley worried about privacy and human rights.
If only Kojima was still making metal gear games
The more things change, the more they stay the same
You mean America. The rest of us are against this and have made policy moves against Israel.
Lip service, really.
No, policy moves. Sanctions. Freezing bank accounts. Banning arms sales. Don’t buy into the anti-West propaganda.
Seriously dude, you think people are stupid? The last two years didn’t exist?
I mean I’ve just learned from another poster that “their contributions represent less than 0.1% of Israel’s total arms imports” in the first place, so it’s not like there was much power or influence we had over Israel.
They’re backed by the most powerful nation on earth. That’s all they need, they don’t need the rest of the West.
Do you know about the dutch tradition of carving little iced alcohol (grain booze, the one they call genever or bols) into little balls and to suck on them? Maybe you can try that? Sucking my bols?
Nitie nite süßer Panda xoxo
The only source I found about “Freezing bank account” is The Conversation (case in point about the lip service lmao)
https://theconversation.com/eu-sanctions-against-israel-heres-whats-on-the-table-260982
If saying european governements are complicit with a genocide is AnTiWesT ProPagAnDa, then yes. Fuck the west.
Here’s a random picture to close our interactions.
Good day
You quoted it, you posted it, I assume you read it?
I said good day
Oh? Remind me again how many countries have even an arms embargo against Israel? Or they have any sort of penalties against them outside of completely symbolic actions done well past the time they should have been? How many of those countries is it a crime to criticize Israel in? The UK and Germany at a minimum.
Germany and the UK are the latest two that have issued arms embargos against Israel, however considering less than 0.1% of Israel’s arms come from outside America, they have little power or influence there.
Zero. It is not a crime to criticize Israel in either the UK or Germany. The BBC just published an article accusing them of genocide. You are spreading misinformation.
Who benefits from this misinformation?
It is in effect against the law to criticize Israel in Germany and now the uk. It is against the law to protest in the UK in effect.
Neither of these things are true. You are spreading misinformation.
The US deserves the vast majority of the blame here (along with Israel of course). The truth is though, for many in Germany and the UK including those at the highest levels of power they are if anything jealous to be missing out on the colonialism and genocide. Again, the US is absolutely the primary problem but… really? You are going to act like the US isn’t just following in the footsteps of the brutal colonial empires of England and Germany?
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/german-chancellor-defends-israels-dirty-work-comments-despite-criticism/3603583
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-israel-dirty-work-merz-exposes-orientalist-roots-genocidal-zionism
Sounds like you’re jealous of Europe being the best place on earth for worker’s rights.
I mean, yes in so far as you can generalize, of course I am jealous of that!? You think I like being stuck at the bottom of a cruel hole lined with gold and bullet casings?
What I am saying is open your eyes to your own history and recognize it is part of the same system and process whether or not the locus of power is currently within your empire or not.
I don’t make this argument as a form of nihilistic relativism or try to rope other countries into the miserable complicity in yet another genocide the US has condemned itself too participating in. The US deserves FAR MORE blame than Germany, the UK, France or any other European country does.
My point however is, don’t lose focus of the fact that the US is a cancerous reflection of the same tendencies towards empire, fascism, ethnic cleansing and xenophobia European history is full of. US history unfolds directly out of the worst parts of European history, you cannot deny it and if you continue to do so you hamstring your capacity to understand the coming threat to Europe that will eat away at everything your society holds dear in the name of fear of terrorism and the silhouette of an immigrant threatening to join your community and become your neighbor…
Maybe if you stopped blaming all your problems on the West you’d be able to dig out of that hole.
When did I blame all of my problems on the West?
Do you think when I stub my toe that I proclaim “Damn you judeo-christian western european values!!” in anger at the sky?
France, Britain, Germany. All as bad as the US.
The responsibility of america is undeniable ofc they’re the main offender. But Germany still use israeli tech.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-secretly-bought-nso-pegasus-spyware/a-59113197
I think it’s at least part of the reason why they’re so stubbornly supporting israel, at least as much as the official wahwah about the genocide they did 80 years ago.
That article is from 2021. This is a few weeks ago:
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-suspends-arms-exports-to-israel-for-use-in-gaza/a-73569858
This is disguisting. Personally I wish for a second versaille agrement for germany after this.
But I’m biased. We shouldn’t let germany be a country imo. When I was there I learned that some actually smart germans calls for the Totale Rückverdummung (“total restupidification”) and balkanization of Germany.
I do love germans though, great people.
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I mean countries, their national governments. America is the only country that officially supports Israel. Every other country in the West has publicly criticized them, sanctioned them, banned arms sales to them. Including Germany and UK.
Then why are those countries also arresting pro-Palestinian protesters?
They aren’t. Name one country where you think it is illegal to protest in support of Palestine, and I will debunk the misinformation for you.
There’s news reports all over the fucking place, here, mainstream media, social media. Wtf are you talking about? They’re all lies?