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> ... Israeli-based commercial geo-intelligence provider with specialized telecom capabilities ...

why are they good at these kind of things - security, hacks, surveillance, 0-days?

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When your goal is to covertly subvert and take control of foreign nations, these sorts of skills tend to come in handy.

No clue why this is getting downvoted, this is literally the purpose.

may not even be the deliberate goal. just that the 100% conscription rate + backs-to-the-wall attitude means that the IDF has a lot of well trained signals intelligence guys who need to make money somehow.

Combination of state support and US intelligence sharing arrangements. This is a smaller operation. Larger operation is AMDOCS which runs billing for most global carriers = access to every billable activity. EU should get rid of them IMHO.

They are a country surrounded by countries that either dislike them or want them wiped from the face of the earth. It only makes sense that they have a significant intelligence and spying industry.

The genocide they're undertaking does place that industry in a whole new light, of course.

Worth note their leaders and allies are bereft of morality.

We might run their history in a slow motion since the year of inception, and then see who is trying to do all the wiping.

They run a mass surveillance operation so they can target individual people with exploding pagers. It's just another aspect of the longstanding war between Israel and Iran (via Hezbollah etc).

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