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Whatever Iran, China, and Russia have done is also a minor effort compared to the billions spent by the US on influence operations.
Doubtful.
Is that not what the senate subcommittee has been discussing for the past two years?
I notice issues relating to these groups (israeli cyber groups) are very quick to be denied or delegitimised on HN
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Well, do you have anything interesting to say about the political implications? Because i'm not sure what they are. If we knew who was responsible, we could talk about motive and implications of that, but we don't. I guess we could consider the broader picture of if this represents an increase on spying on civil society leaders (a bad thing, certainly), but without a base rate to compare with, it seems like conjectur…
1. That the legislative stranglehold on the eu and other bodies by this country is so strong that they do next to nothing to criticise/sanction israel despite literally being hacked by them? Post-pegasus as well. 2. This states lack of care and oftentimes facilitation of these groups, and their close ties to its military 3. The sense of neo mccarthyism that this creates with the idea of constant surveilance through t…
The perpetrator was most likely Hungarian intelligence who used a product they bought from an Israeli company.
Imo, the bigger question is why Hungary, Poland, Spain, Greece, and Cyprus (all countries part of the recent EU Spyware Scandal) [1] continue to allow their Interior Ministries to attack the phones of both domestic and foreign opponents.
[0] - https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/orban-c...
[1] - https://www.politico.eu/article/parliament-defense-subcommit...
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Why couldn't the software engineers change? The geopolitical scene is much different today, and it's easy to see threats coming from your opposite pole
Can you elaborate what in your opinion changed in the geopolitical scene?
I notice issues relating to these groups (israeli cyber groups) are very quick to be denied or delegitimised on HN
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No they're not. You're the top comment on this post, despite contributing very little to this discussion. Israel and the geopolitics around mercenary spyware coming out of that country is a very regular occurrence on this site. Despite a few instances of people trying to downplay the connection or redirect the conversation, there is ample discussion of this topic. I know this because I follow this topic closely and r…
It obviously wasn't the top comment when I posted it. When I came into the discussion most were about not attributing it to the state in question despite no evidence either way, and downplaying it. And, the fact that my comment has come to the top means that it has seemingly resonated with a lot of users with similar experiences (~+70pts). If you do actually follow the topic very closely, or read one or two comments…
Unless it's the US as hacker. Then no one is inpressed.
I notice issues relating to these groups (israeli cyber groups) are very quick to be denied or delegitimised on HN
Israel, despite being a small country, has a very successful tech/IT sector, esp in the security space. Probably IDF acolytes bridging over to the private sector. Israel is widely known to participate in social psyop campaigns as well. It is not farfetched to think they have a pulse on popular tech forums like HN.
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Well, do you have anything interesting to say about the political implications? Because i'm not sure what they are. If we knew who was responsible, we could talk about motive and implications of that, but we don't. I guess we could consider the broader picture of if this represents an increase on spying on civil society leaders (a bad thing, certainly), but without a base rate to compare with, it seems like conjectur…
1. That the legislative stranglehold on the eu and other bodies by this country is so strong that they do next to nothing to criticise/sanction israel despite literally being hacked by them? Post-pegasus as well. 2. This states lack of care and oftentimes facilitation of these groups, and their close ties to its military 3. The sense of neo mccarthyism that this creates with the idea of constant surveilance through t…
Maybe you could make the argument there should be better export restrictions on private companies to treat so called "cyber-weapons" like real weapons. There are a bunch of efforts on this front. You kind of have to have the treaties in place before you can start exerting diplomatic pressure in regards to them. There are plenty of people working on that, but the wheels of the UN move slowly. Anyways, this particular incident doesn't change much in that regard.
For 3, i dont really think this incident (a failed hacking attempt of a type that is pretty typical) really changes or says anything about constant surveilence. We are already way into the era of constant surveilence.