Less than a week after the White House blacklisted a controversial spyware vendor, a federal agency negotiated a secret contract with it via a front company.
The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO. It turns out that not every part of the government has gotten the message.
One way to slow the trade of spyware to governments and other buyers who may use them to abuse human rights is to make it less lucrative, experts argued.