Geopolitics
The Shadow Brokers: How the West's Unregulated Cyber Arms Trade Undermines Global Sovereignty
The market for offensive cyber capabilities is enabled by a shadowy network of intermediaries—brokers and resellers—who widen proliferation, drive up costs, and complicate regulation. This murky, profit-driven ecosystem, largely shaped by Western-centric policy frameworks, directly undermines the cybersecurity and digital sovereignty of the Global South by flooding it with untraceable, invasive tools while hypocritically seeking to regulate others.
