Increasingly obvious and annoying, even to most normies, that Israel is nowadays the main obstacle not only to lasting peace in the middle east (and various other regions) but also a major menace to anyone valuing their right to (digital) privacy.
No, Israel is definitely the world leader in spying. They have a wonderful relationship with the American political class, enabling access to what the US has, and with asymmetry protecting Israelis over Americans, plus their own clandestine spying against influential Americans, and their operations all over the world. Their part among the players doesn't detract from grievances against Israel - it adds to it.
There are dozens of firms in NATO countries and especially the US that do this kind of signals intelligence and surveillance work. I see no evidence at all that the US IC uses Israel for any kind of cover; we have native firms enabling sigint at the highest levels. "Cover" only makes sense if you're using it exclusively, but most CNE enablement work in NATO is done by NATO firms.
> "Cover" only makes sense if you're using it exclusively, but most CNE enablement work in NATO is done by NATO firms.
Cover is behaving horribly out in the open and having half of US politicians run cover for you by demonizing your detractors as anti-Semitic. The US has been shielding them for decades, though not exclusively. That time is waning.
Israel stands alone in its cyber crime though. I'm not aware of any other country that has committed an act of mass terrorism by blowing up consumer devices.
In terms of number of people spied on to number of people involved in spying, sure. China and U.S. are probably the world leaders in spying; its just a smaller percentage of the economies of both
Having worked in the adtech many years ago, there are a lot questionable practices and companies, curiously only the Israeli one are singled out(and get to top of HN). Huge number of adtech companies are American, many are Chinese or Indian and others.
I hoped with Ukrainians destroying Yandex data centers the obsession with jews and Israel (a jew among the nations) would subdue on HN but alas ...
Only 100 years ago those things were said and now I see the repeat of it.
"The Jew has no interest in the solution of the questions regarding the German fate. . . . The Jew has caused our misery, and today he makes a living from it."
-Joseph Goebbels, 30 July 1928
> aimed at Starlink users and that it was the No. 1 bidder on Starlink traffic in more than 100 countries, including several where Starlink itself was banned or restricted.
Some counter espionage program? Maybe spies use Starlink instead of radios these days.
Increasingly obvious and annoying, even to most normies, that Israel is nowadays the main obstacle not only to lasting peace in the middle east (and various other regions) but also a major menace to anyone valuing their right to (digital) privacy.
Basically every major industrialized country in the world has firms that do stuff like this, and worse.
No, Israel is definitely the world leader in spying. They have a wonderful relationship with the American political class, enabling access to what the US has, and with asymmetry protecting Israelis over Americans, plus their own clandestine spying against influential Americans, and their operations all over the world. Their part among the players doesn't detract from grievances against Israel - it adds to it.
There are dozens of firms in NATO countries and especially the US that do this kind of signals intelligence and surveillance work. I see no evidence at all that the US IC uses Israel for any kind of cover; we have native firms enabling sigint at the highest levels. "Cover" only makes sense if you're using it exclusively, but most CNE enablement work in NATO is done by NATO firms.
> "Cover" only makes sense if you're using it exclusively, but most CNE enablement work in NATO is done by NATO firms.
Cover is behaving horribly out in the open and having half of US politicians run cover for you by demonizing your detractors as anti-Semitic. The US has been shielding them for decades, though not exclusively. That time is waning.
Israel stands alone in its cyber crime though. I'm not aware of any other country that has committed an act of mass terrorism by blowing up consumer devices.
In terms of number of people spied on to number of people involved in spying, sure. China and U.S. are probably the world leaders in spying; its just a smaller percentage of the economies of both
Having worked in the adtech many years ago, there are a lot questionable practices and companies, curiously only the Israeli one are singled out(and get to top of HN). Huge number of adtech companies are American, many are Chinese or Indian and others. I hoped with Ukrainians destroying Yandex data centers the obsession with jews and Israel (a jew among the nations) would subdue on HN but alas ...
Only 100 years ago those things were said and now I see the repeat of it. "The Jew has no interest in the solution of the questions regarding the German fate. . . . The Jew has caused our misery, and today he makes a living from it." -Joseph Goebbels, 30 July 1928
A lot more information here: https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targ...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101813
Weird sentence structure. It makes it sound like the company is accused of being Israeli.
> aimed at Starlink users and that it was the No. 1 bidder on Starlink traffic in more than 100 countries, including several where Starlink itself was banned or restricted.
Some counter espionage program? Maybe spies use Starlink instead of radios these days.
Why wouldn't they? We already know that militaries and governments use StarLink. I'll bet dissidents and terrorists use them as well.
I'm not offering my support of this, but it's just not a surprising state of affairs.