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Comment by rvnx | Hacker News Reader

Not sure if it's a very wise move to hire foreign intelligence offers and give them access to the core of your tech products and to the customers data.

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Probably the entire company's purpose is to gain access to secrets.

Anyway, Chomsky claims that there's 0 distinction between USA and Israel, so if you see it from that point of view, it makes little difference.

A dumb conspiracy theory. Israel has mandatory conscription (barring some cases), and many of the smart ones are recruited into Unit 8200. It's not surprising that they go on to start cyber companies once conscription ends, given that's a major focus of the Unit.

"But Chomsky said so!"

So you think they shouldn't be trusted because they have ties with a foreign nation or they should be trusted because their foreign nation is really a puppet state of your nation?

It's unclear to me what you're thinking besides the wish to troll.

"conspiracy". When you meet employees of such companies they brag about it and sometimes even do special tricks through their contacts to impress you.

For me it's enough that if Chinese intelligence officers were founding software security companies, I'd not use the product. It's the same idea for Israel. Conscription just makes it worse, because more of their citizens are then suspect.

Not supporting people who take part in the crime of persecution, is a nice side effect.

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