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jameshilliardyesterday at 7:13 PM3 repliesview on HN

> Most Israeli tech companies are founded by people in Unit 8200, which is the sorta Israel NSA. They orchestrated the pager attack on Lebanon [2] which was a supply chain attack that was 10 years in the making, and was internationally decried as a War Crime.

The spicy pagers were mostly Mossad AFAIU, an extremely precise supply chain attack(where the devices were exclusively sold to terrorists) and where essentially all casualties were terrorists(or in rare cases family members of terrorists) is unlikely to be a war crime despite what various UN officials(who have a serious credibility problem in general) say.

> The take away I would have for people is to not trust any Israeli tech, anywhere in their tech stack. Don't use anything that sends user data via Israel or to Israeli companies, don't use anything with Israeli tech in it. If you're building anything that has user data, don't use any Israeli subprocessors. Anything that Unit 8200 has touched should be avoided.

That really worked out great for the terrorists who bought the spicy Mossad pagers didn't it? They tried to avoid modern devices like smartphones(which are relatively easy to hack by nation state attackers regardless of where the tech inside came from) and ended up with an even bigger problem.


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GuinansEyebrowsyesterday at 9:15 PM

> spicy pagers

what a disturbing infantilization

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