{"id":111762,"date":"2020-08-22T16:23:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T23:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-man-who-built-a-spyware-empire-says-its-time-to-come-out-of-the-shadows"},"modified":"2020-08-22T16:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T23:23:53","slug":"the-man-who-built-a-spyware-empire-says-its-time-to-come-out-of-the-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-man-who-built-a-spyware-empire-says-its-time-to-come-out-of-the-shadows","title":{"rendered":"The man who built a spyware empire says it\u2019s time to come out of the shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-man-who-built-a-spyware-empire-says-its-time-to-come-out-of-the-shadows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shalev Hulio wants to explain himself.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, silence and secrecy are inherent in the spy business. For nine full years, Hulio never talked publicly about his billion-dollar hacking company\u2014even when his hacking tools were linked to scandal or he was accused of being complicit in human rights abuses around the world. Lately, though, he\u2019s speaking up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t understand how intelligence works,\u201d Hulio tells me over a video call from Tel Aviv. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy. It\u2019s not pleasant. Intelligence is a shitty business full of ethical dilemmas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shalev Hulio wants to explain himself. Normally, silence and secrecy are inherent in the spy business. For nine full years, Hulio never talked publicly about his billion-dollar hacking company\u2014even when his hacking tools were linked to scandal or he was accused of being complicit in human rights abuses around the world. Lately, though, he\u2019s speaking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}