Comment by keybored

> There's also nothing inherently wrong with selling intelligence tools to a western government, Italy is not Iran or Zambia.

Yes, because Western ones are the good governments (looking at Meloni).

> And fighting terror or crime using software is valid. The only thing that surprises me is that a western government might attack journalists, and what I'd like to know from this article was what was their motivation

Huh, it’s surprising that Western governments would spy on journalists. But they are the good guys? What was their motivation.