tcp_handshaker 2 days ago
There are no former intelligence agents from Unit 8200, they call you back every two years for "reserves" exercises, until you are at least 50 years old.

Apple should do their due diligence.

joe_mamba 2 days ago
>There are no former intelligence agents from Unit 8200, they call you back every two years for "reserves" exercises

Militaries around the world also have reserve exercises. Israeli one hits different.

Israel is dangerous because they also makes use of Jews abroad to turn them into agents operating for the good of Israel rather than their home country.

Like how Zalman Shapiro stole US nuclear material for Israel's nuclear program. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2016-1...

Thristle 2 days ago
There are a bunch of units under the Israeli intelligence corps, each doing their own thing. They are not the units with the 007 spies, they are technological units with a very small minority of them in defensive/offensive cybersecurity.

Looking at the profiles in that page it looks like all of them are just programmers/integrators or training other how to use the intelligence systems that are in 8200. not much spy shit.

If it's on linkedin, it's not really secret.

dbg31415 2 days ago
Never forget, this is the elite cybersecurity group responsible for unleashing Wix. (=
myth_drannon 2 days ago
don't tell anyone I told you, but Google bought Wiz and Waze, two large 8200 ops
reptilian 2 days ago
Now let's talk about Meta and their 8200 alumni...
sillystuff 2 days ago
> Now let's talk about Meta and their 8200 alumni...

And, Google ~100 Israeli spooks employed

Microsoft ~250 Israeli spooks

Apple, at least, several dozen. And, Apple is heavily invested in Israel's tech sector, shipping Israeli developed tech in their products.

Palo Alto Networks was founded by an Israeli spook

Nvidia

Amazon

...

Over 1400 Israeli spooks employed in US tech firms.

They have also infiltrated US media, including CNN and Axios

The thoroughly discredited story about Hamas raping Israeli Jews that the New York Times printed, then retracted, was authored by an Israeli Air Force intelligence officer.

joe_mamba 2 days ago
Bro, NSO group and Apple rent the same office building in Israel.

Whether you have Android or Apple, they're both NSA-pilled and Mossad-maxxed.

Obscurity4340 2 days ago
How is this not a bigger thing? I knew they were hiring ex military spooks but holy shit, thats insane
bigyabai 2 days ago
I wish anyone would care. We can't even prosecute child sex traffickers like Ghislaine Maxwell because her dad was Mossad-affiliated.

The American public had their chance to voice extreme distaste and stage protests when the Snowden leaks came out. Nobody lifted a finger, we all treated NSA surveillance as a foregone conclusion and moved on. America's collective imagination failed to imagine what would come of our apathy towards surveillance, and now we're all here. Pity.

myth_drannon 2 days ago
Johny Srouji, Apple's new head of hardware, is Israeli.
tcp_handshaker 2 days ago
Now you know why Putin uses the OS he does... :-)
daft_pink 2 days ago
Why wouldn’t Apple hire highly skilled highly qualified people?
_DeadFred_ 2 days ago
A similar thread regarding hiring Russians and/or Russian ex-pats after the recent escalation of the 2014 war of Ukraine wouldn't have been allowed here, nor your comment downvoted and the others upvoted. On recent Iran related threads a crazy amount of straight pro-Iranian and anti-American propaganda was allowed on an actively moderated discussion board of a financial group tightly tied to American tech. YCombinator has few specific carved out political propaganda narratives it puts it's thumb on discussions for, those that are anti-Israel and unbelievable to me post Iran war pro-Iran anti-American ones.

Be sure to let your Congressmen/Senator know the political position YCombinator choses to give weight to on it's moderated official discussion platform. Point your Senator/Congressmen to Iran threads here especially. It's probably good for the government to understand the limited, moderated 'thought' YCombinator choses for the average tech person who comes to this forum looking to learn what it takes to be in YCombinator's good favor.

jst1fthsdys 2 days ago
Hmm, where exactly are these threads with pro Iranian and anti American posts? Gonna need some examples to send my congressman after all.
_DeadFred_ 2 days ago
I'm not going to highlight the ones I pointed out to my representatives as I don't want them specifically removed at this point but the Iran Lego propaganda one was pretty full of examples when I was screenshotting it. You can also google

site:news.ycombinator.com russian bot versus site:news.ycombinator.com hasbara

you won't get much returns on russian bot even those it was often used in the rare Ukraine/Russian threads (or more often sub threads) because it has been moderated/pushed to stop being used by the community. Hasbara usage as a pejorative response is pretty casual and accepted usage here however, and a single comment just responding 'hasbara' to what someone said has often been left up for the period I monitored to see if it would be moderated (basically the useful life of the threads discussion when leaving it up would be of impact). The difference shows the YCombinator thumb on the discourse on their moderated message boards. Hasbara is also worse in the it is using language (specifically hebrew) to otherize a group, to highlight their 'hasbara' as worse/something more nefarious than when other groups do it, using a foreign word that would be better conveyed/understood with an english word (showing the intent isn't to communicate a thought in the best way but is to 'other' a linguistic group that also happens to be a racial group), giving usage a racial/ethnic manipulation/hate dynamic. Unlike Russian bot I have never seen hasbara usage called out or pushed against by the moderation here though it is mostly used in an way interchangeable with how russian bot was which was called out by mods.