Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation

Article note: Good. When someone gets caught actively exploiting a 0day against public targets, shut them down. I don't give a shit if it's a "friendly, democratic" nation-state actor, an "unfriendly" nation-state actor, a criminal organization, or some teenagers. They all look the same, and they all represent the same "Everyone watching now knows about this" secondary threat. There is nothing patriotic about colluding to hide attacks against the public. In the same way that crypto back-doors are bullshit that every bad actor will exploit against the public, magical tagging for "friendly" nation-state hackers is just an invitation for abuse and exploitation, and is the preamble for a stupid arms race legitimizing nation-state hackers fucking with the civilian populations of competing nations and selling backdoored shit into each others markets. Plus, we know the US intelligence community has long been operating without meaningful democratic oversight, so that's not an excuse either.