Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 6/3/23

India's secret hacking industry, Ten years after Snowden, The MyPillow guy's fake data, Surveillance at Minneapolis schools, Why intel agencies should spy for human rights

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A Confession Exposes India’s Secret Hacking Industry

The New Yorker’s David Kirkpatrick takes a deep dive into India’s thriving hacker-for-hire community populated by around seventeen companies that generally align themselves with the policies of the Indian government.

The hacking-for-hire business has prospered in India for some of the same reasons that I.T. outsourcing has: an abundance of inexpensive skilled labor in an open marketplace readily accessible to Western clients. But Indian hackers are also unusually brazen, with competing firms publicly touting “ethical” or “white hat” hacking services, and individual hacker…