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, a company Dilian is closely associated with: His first surveillance business, Circles, merged with NSO in 2014, when U.S. private equity firm took control of both for a total of $250 million. NSO has since strenuously denied having anything to do with Khashoggi’s death.attempt to hack the WhatsApp and iPhone of a U.K.-based human rights lawyer
Dilian brushes off the criticism. Don’t blame the dealers, blame the customers, he argues. “We are not the policemen of the world, and we are not the judges of the world,” he adds, suggesting that it’s down to governments to ensure that export controls and other safeguards are adequate to prevent use against the civil rights and journalist communities. “It’s hypocritical to come and say, ‘How come you sold to Mexico?’ It’s legitimate. Why not? If the U.S. approves sales to Mexico, the E.U.
Dilian is also reticent about the provenance of his customers, though he lets slip a few clues. He describes a demo of Wi-Fi interception in Indonesia, where he also has an office. He talks of customers in Africa, the Persian Gulf and the Far East. A colleague talks of discussions with Mexicans chasing cartels.
After coming out of the clandestine world, Dilian tried his hand as a consumer tech entrepreneur, though his first two attempts foundered. One enterprise was Vidyo. It was much the same as Google’s Chromecast, “but ten years before and without their knowledge of how to get really to the market.” He remembers being on Fifth Avenue in New York City, proudly looking at his product in a store. “And then a year later I closed it with a nice loss of half a million dollars.
Dilian again took a short hiatus from the spy world to become executive vice president at $1 billion-valued 3D-printing giant Stratasys. When he left two years later, he says, he sold his shares and made himself another $2 million. In two short years, he’d gone from failed entrepreneur to multimillionaire.
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