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Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones

85 pointsby isaacfrondtoday at 11:34 AM22 commentsview on HN

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128bytetoday at 2:45 PM

Incase the article gets disappeared: https://nonogra.ph/us-police-now-armed-with-israeli-spy-vans...

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ChrisArchitecttoday at 3:00 PM

Related tech discussion last October:

ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45184368

mikestewtoday at 2:06 PM

It’s those $4.5MM Chevy Tahoes discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969582

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1970-01-01today at 2:13 PM

>Cognyte sells a lot of snake oil – for instance, the company claims to have created software that predicts where crime is likely to occur in the future.

So they claim to implement machine learning which is snake oil?

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ChrisArchitecttoday at 2:54 PM

Title is: US police now armed with Israeli spy vans simulating mobile phone towers

add in Israeli-made for a bit more clarity

zzzeektoday at 2:55 PM

wow that is a really misleading headline. I thought this was the Israeli government spying on US soil.

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paytonjjonestoday at 2:46 PM

Title is misleading. The vans are manufactured by an Israeli company and bought by US government entities, not vans affiliated with the nation state of Israel.

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user2722today at 2:21 PM

But why?

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know-howtoday at 1:15 PM

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roenxitoday at 2:29 PM

As I follow the stats, somewhere between 20-40% of the US public seems to be open to the idea that Israel is a genocidal ethnostate. I have a low opinion of the US State on the best of days but it actually seems quite remarkable that they would be buying from them given where public opinion seems to be at. The US public is tolerant of a lot of things but the political cost-benefits surely can't make sense for that.

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