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Re: Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones

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Post by stevenwoo »

roenxi wrote: post #6

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.

Approximately 60 percent of Americans have unfavorable view on Israel. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/07/negative-... However there are national executive pressures and state mandates against speaking out or boycotting Israeli companies, notably in Texas where they bought these. https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/anti-israel-policies-are-ant...

Re: Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones

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Post by Georgelemental »

paytonjjones wrote: post #13

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.

You think Israeli companies (or those of any other country, for that matter) can sell spy tech abroad without their government's signoff?

Re: Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones

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Post by applicative »

zzzeek wrote: post #20

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

These articles are for the sake of the misleading headline. The postmonotheistic planet is in a fever that is far far far more profound, delusional and apocalyptic than anything thing in the 30s.

Re: Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones

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Post by applicative »

roenxi wrote: post #6

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.

The US is a genocidal ethnostate. The few remaining Jews of the planet are mostly 'oriental' and are ethnicized by the Islamic world they have been exprelled from.

Re: Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

nohell wrote: post #17
128byte wrote: post #11

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

You really never know with these people

I did my IBEW apprenticeship (mostly) at datacenters, during Snowden's revelations. It was a wild ride, all the "not real" but seen every day at work technological capabilities that didn't technically exist. I was just an electrician.

That was well-over a decade ago. Cannot even imagine how much more control/eavesdropping/automation the current leadership maintains, quasi-"legally" (by statute; we started re-defining wordmeanings centuries ago). I'll "stay in your lane," and thank you Dear Leaders, for freedumb.

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All to say: you're not wrong, but it's Whoever's quest for insatiability that makes them so unpredictable. Our technochomocracy thrives within, colorless.

"Because they can."

Re: Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones

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Post by close04 »

128byte wrote: post #11

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

Getting to “the second page” is as good as gone. All it takes is platforms’ algorithms to not promote this link and it doesn’t matter how many people find it worth the discussion.

Case in point, pushing 100 upvotes but off the front page, when some random Wired blogspam stay on the front page for half a day with a quarter of votes and comments.

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Post by Georgelemental »

You can partially protect yourself from these attacks by disabling 2G on your device. This won't prevent location tracking, but will stop the attacker from intercepting calls or texts.

- Android: https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/cellular-s...

- iOS: you must turn on Lockdown Mode https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

Re: Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones

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Post by kennywinker »

danans wrote: post #10
amelius wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because they can. U.S. law and governance structures turn out to be completely broken. Hackable by the first administration that tries.

Paraphrasing Garry Kasparov from 2016: "The US is about to find out that it's democracy has been running on the honor system"

All democracies run on the honor system. Which is fine, as long as you’re aware of it and don’t let people who don’t respect that honor system get into positions of power

Re: Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

mikestew wrote: post #3

It’s those $4.5MM Chevy Tahoes discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969582

I have worked at this agency (in the article), as support staff (electrician), over a decade ago.

It was incredibly eye-opening for my then-late-twenties just how much waste... Reflecting now, it's still mostly unbelievable how much money is spent on database infrastructure.

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A brother is now a politician in that same stupid state.

My good advice for remaining fellow Texians: LEAVE.

Nothing forces anybody (let alone the bottom 95% of Americans) to stay in the shithole they grew up in [–5th gen Texan, 2nd-gen Austinite; left a decade ago, following my smarter brother, exeunt].

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"They" don't give a single fuck about you, as long as you stay out of their way. None. Not a single fuck.

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