<story><title>Clash over Surveillance Software Turns Personal in Germany</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-13/clash-over-surveillance-software-turns-personal-in-germany</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sveme</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m always wondering how the software developers of FinFisher justify working for such shady players like Turkey and other middle east authoritarian regimes. Are they heading home to family and kids after destroying the remnants of the turkish democracy and tell themselves &amp;quot;twas a good day&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>&amp;quot;It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.&amp;quot; -- Upton Sinclair</text></comment>
<story><title>Clash over Surveillance Software Turns Personal in Germany</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-13/clash-over-surveillance-software-turns-personal-in-germany</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sveme</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m always wondering how the software developers of FinFisher justify working for such shady players like Turkey and other middle east authoritarian regimes. Are they heading home to family and kids after destroying the remnants of the turkish democracy and tell themselves &amp;quot;twas a good day&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pimmen</author><text>I just don&amp;#x27;t think they care, and they&amp;#x27;re under the assumption nobody else cares too.&lt;p&gt;I work for a news publisher in Sweden, and when we got acquired by a larger one the CTO of that company held a huge speech about why working for a news companty was so much more rewarding than working for Spotify. You get to make sure democracy functions, keeping the power in check. Sure, we can&amp;#x27;t pay you as much as Spotify, and it will not look as good on your cv, but at least you can go home and get a good night&amp;#x27;s rest knowing you did good. After the speech, minutes later, it was announced to us that this would probably be last time we saw him since he was going to start working for an online gambling business. Kind of took the air out of that whole spiel.</text></comment>