Also, as an Israeli, I can 100% confirm that Israelis have absolutely no issues with crossing any kind of boundary. The fact that others think that such a thing as "boundaries" exist only serves as an advantage.
Maybe as an Israeli you can see the hypocrisy in stating that there are no boundaries when, if it wasn't for a large part of the world deciding that in fact there ARE boundaries that should not be crossed, the Nuremberg trials would never have been held and Israel would not exist at all.
But you go ahead and ignore your own history.
Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad.
If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@virus-basket.biz.ru.
If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them.
And:
Threat: The Mossad doing Mossad things with your email account
Solution: Magical amulets? Fake your own death, move into a submarine? YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON
(That's perhaps a little too light-hearted humor, considering the youtube link in the post I'm responding to...)
Have fun in the submarine!
If I do a quick samples of people I know, there’s a super high correlation in being a hacker/developer and not using Facebook. Maybe they should try HN instead.
That's basically Israel's attitude on anything: doing anything they want without any kind of boundaries, then denying brazenly they did it, while doing it again and again. Like having snipers shooting at thousands of civilians, kids, journalists, paramedics, who are protesting inside their own borders.
That’s actually a time-honoured Russian/Soviet SOP, currently embodied by Mr. Sergey Lavrov.
The USSR had a lot of influence on early Israel, and it shows in many little things like this.
The term used to have a very negative connotation, but interestingly, Google says "usually used approvingly". It seems to fit pretty well the descriptions of the "rudeness" and "boldness" in common Israeli culture.
Also seems to be a pretty accurate description of SV/startup culture too...
Ugh... this is so myopic and sounds like you're intentionally not telling the truth.
all those "kids", "journalists", and "paramedics" were shown to be carrying bombs or other explosives.
I'm not arguing that terrorists/soldiers/murders were killed, you are the one claiming that a reflective vest puts someone above the law.
On top of the 1000s of staged or edited photos/videos coming out of pallywood on a daily basis it's nearly impossible to take anyone making such claims seriously. as they are almost always full of misinformation/lies.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. I didn't mean that all the people shot by snipers (not killed- just shot, usually in the legs and often causing permanent disabilities) were kids or paramedics or journalists. I was questioning your statement that "all ... were shown to be carrying bombs or other explosives". It's quite a categorical statement, and almost certainly wrong.
Also your unbridled hate for all things jewish kinda outs you as a biased party.
Security research is the continual process of discovering that your spaceship is a deathtrap. However, as John F. Kennedy once said, “SCREW IT WE’RE GOING TO THE MOON.” I cannot live my life in fear because someone named PhreakusMaximus at DefConHat 2014 showed that you can induce peanut allergies at a distance using an SMS message and a lock of your victim’s hair. If that’s how it is, I accept it and move on. Thinking about security is like thinking about where to ride your motorcycle: the safe places are no fun, and the fun places are not safe. I shall ride wherever my spirit takes me, and I shall find my Gigantic Martian Insect Party, and I will, uh, probably be rent asunder by huge cryptozoological mandibles, but I will die like Thomas Jefferson: free, defiant, and without a security label.
This I like.
"I'm crazier than you are." has always been the US position re strategic nuclear weaponry.
Israelis in general are very blunt and perfectly willing to question superiors and voice opinions and questions in situations where Americans never would. This includes the military where subordinates would question a superior in a way that would never fly in an American military (and probably others).
Israelis on the street will voice opinions to strangers in a way that would be perceived as incredibly rude elsewhere, but is normal in Israel.
What do you mean, for example?
You're fighting with your teen, in the US everyone would turn away and pretend not to hear, in Israel they'll just openly talk to you about their own teen and what they did, etc. and then half the bus would chime in. They're all really nice about it mind you, just trying to help.
Israelis think of everyone as part of their personal family, even strangers are really distant relatives, is I guess a good way to put it.
Well, they claim they are but you don't see anything at least from outside. From outside it seems they are easily buying whatever government is selling to them. Working on surveillance projects is rather embraced and you even receive strong social support for it.
So I don't get how do you compare it to the US! Whereas in the US you would have a hard time to convince people to work on surveillance projects and even then often people end up having a hard time with their moral values even when they are not directly doing anything wrong. Not to mention many anti-surveillance activists are based in the US. I believe that is a very unfair comparison.
The truth is every country you look people are a bag of goods and bads and they manage to find greedy people to work on surveillance projects even in the EU.
> Working on surveillance projects is rather embraced and you even receive strong social support for it.
That's right, because there's nothing wrong with it.
> So I don't get how do you compare it to the US!
Because I'm not comparing surveillance projects, I'm comparing modes of speaking.
> Whereas in the US you would have a hard time to convince people to work on surveillance projects and even then often people end up having a hard time with their moral values even when they are not directly doing anything wrong.
Because it's quite obvious to the ordinary Israeli that surveillance projects save lives, so obviously they would want to work on it.
The US isn't under quite the same level of attack, although it's far from clear there is supposed to be something wrong with it in the US either.
https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/
I don't necessarily agree, but that's just how it is.
Why isn't anyone mad at Apple who (falsely) advertises iOS as being "Secure By Design?"
Huh? This is Israel.
And some of us are mad at Google and Apple for selling such insecure-by-design junk. By that I mean that apps are trusted more than (and can't fully be controlled by) device owners.
Knowing nothing about the company in question, I'm still certain that most of its founders, investors and employees come from 8200. So, government doesn't need to be formally involved in any way, it's just the same social circles, everybody just knows everyone.
Otherwise, it is your choice, whether you need a distinction like that. I don't see how it might be useful.
Edit: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...
The entire UN Security Council officially recognized this, with even the US not using their veto power (they abstained).
Is this a subtle reference to the Israeli occupation of Palestine?
Isn't this how villains in Marvel movies work?