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Trojan Built for Industrial Espionage

xPertCodert writes "Some of the largest Israeli companies are involved in the major industral espionage case, in which private investigators implanted specially crafted Trojan horses on the computers at unsuspecting companies in a bid to obtain priviledged financial and technical data. Given the current state of Windows security and advances in spyware, probably any company has become a very easy target for such spy attack from competitors"

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  1. I wouldn't be too surprised... by maksim2042 · · Score: 3, Informative

    If the entire scandal was percipitated by Bezek (the reigning ILEC/MaBell of Israel). Bezek was complacent about the coming of the cell phone in the early '90s and was so late to the game that it's practically a non-player.

    To the contrary, Pele-Phone trademark name actually became Israeli "xerox" - every cell phone is called a "pelephone" in the vernacular. So if Bezek wanted to hurt the ungrateful competitors' market share, the trojan scandal would do nicely.

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  2. Re:Conspiracy Theories by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 3, Informative

    oh please, why is it always a conspiracy theory just because you don't know about it personally? I'll even give you some Newsmax sources,

    "The Chinese air force is equipped with the Harpy medium-range anti-radar missile acquired from Israel, and its new Chengdu J-10 strike fighter uses technology obtained from the canceled Israeli Lavi program. link

    Here we go from the Asian Times, " Israel has also been a long-standing supplier of advanced military technologies to China. According to the findings of a past US congressional committee chaired by Representative Christopher Cox (Republican-California), Israel has "offered significant technology cooperation to the People's Republic of China, especially in aircraft and missile development", including helping China build its current F-10 fighter jet." LINK

    Here's a nice article from the Jerusalem Post about the u.s. suspending cooperative development on the arrow-2 missile defence system with Israel. quote, "A source quoted by MENL explained the rationale for the encroaching US boycott: "It's all about China." As the report explained, "The Pentagon, with full support of the administration, does not want to deal with Israeli products or technology that could be sent to China."

    There's plenty more information available from all your favourite right-wing sources about the chinese-israeli love affair that's been going on for 20 years. You just have to look because FoxNews & CNN are not interested in telling you about it.