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U.S. Forces Viewed Encrypted Israeli Drone Feeds (theintercept.com)
iceco2 links to The Intercept's report that the U.S. and UK intelligence forces have been (or at least were) intercepting positional data as well as imagery from Israeli drones and fighters, through a joint program dubbed "Anarchist," based on the island of Cyprus. Among the captured images that the Intercept has published, based on data provided by Edward Snowden, are ones that appear to show weaponized drones, something that the U.S. military is well-known for using, but that the IDF does not publicly acknowledge as part of its own arsenal.
Notes iceco2: U.S. spying on allies is nothing new. It is surprising to see the ease with which encrypted Israeli communications were intercepted. As always, it wasn't the crypto which was broken -- just the lousy method it was applied.
Ars Technica explains that open-source software, including ImageMagick was central to the analysis of the captured data.
As always, it wasn't the crypto which was broken -- just the lousy method it was applied.
So I should just know that and expect that at all times?
What about how good the military is in using it? Shall I also assume it's always implemented in bad enough ways?
(Speaking of which: Storage encryption, boot drive SSD with built in encryption? HDDs with software encryption? Multiple layers? I wonder if Slashdot would want to make a post about suggestions for how to keep your data private.)
Even allies know the rules.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
the drone feeds could be valuable information for human rights advocates. Israeli forces have a history of violating human rights
If you're actually interested in human rights violations, instead of just protesting whatever is trendy at the local SJW chapter, look at what is being done by the Palestinians. Israel is not perfect, but to protest Israel and ignore what the Palestinians are doing is just intellectually dishonest and ignorant.
And war crimes.
You are welcome on my lawn.
It's only a war crime if you lose.
Where on earth did the information to back up this difficult-to-parse statement come from? The video was encoded with VideoCrypt. VideoCrypt, which was released in 1989, has a number of ways that it can be attacked. Including brute force, which was used here in the form of the Antisky app (from 1994).
There will be no peace until all of gaza's rocket launching hospitals and preschools get glassed.
So you're suggesting the Nazi option (Godwin rule in effect) which was the final solution?
Just goes to show Jews learned well from when they were oppressed to know how to do the same to others.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When one considers the $8 billion we taxpayers are forced to hand over to the apartheid state of Israel each year, combined with technology stolen by traitors such as Jonathan Pollard, it's not as if we didn't have a right to the images.
Besides, since they deliberately attacked the USS Liberty in international waters, claiming they couldn't see the American flag flying and didn't know it was a U.S. ship despite repeated radio transmissions in the clear stating as much over a 20 minute period, we need to be sure the next time they attack us they can't use the same excuse.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
the drone feeds could be valuable information for human rights advocates. Israeli forces have a history of violating human rights
If you're actually interested in human rights violations, instead of just protesting whatever is trendy at the local SJW chapter, look at what is being done by the Palestinians. Israel is not perfect, but to protest Israel and ignore what the Palestinians are doing is just intellectually dishonest and ignorant.
There's a huge difference between an ethnic group which uses violence because they are being oppressed and mistreated, and an occupying power that uses violence in an attempt to stop or defend against that violence. It's a situation where naturally, violence begets violence, and "retaliations" and "reactions" will continue indefinitely.
If you treat people unfairly, they will act out. That's true for my 4 year old son, it's true for the people who work under me, and it is true for Israel and the Palestinians. Most people don't act out without good reasons. If you give a man a place to live, security against violence, a way to make money, and opportunities for his children to have the same or better life when they grow up, that man will focus on taking care of his family and getting on with his life. Even very impoverished people are generally happy with those elements. The fact that this kind of life is not available to many people who live in Gaza or the West Bank is the reason for the violence on the Palestinian side.
Focusing on the fundamentals of why people are acting out is the only way to solve them. The Palestinians don't have the power or the money to fix these things alone. Israel does, but every house they destroy, every factory they demolish, every field they bulldoze, and every restriction they put on Gaza is working against actually solving the real problem.
Nobody is ignoring what the Palestinians are doing. Both sides employ violence. The violence has lasted for decades- there are clearly underlying problems that can't be solved by violence. In that sense, I would put forth that the violence on both sides is irrelevent and a distraction from the real problems of housing, job security, and opportunities for the young people.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
And the Arabs have learned a lot too from the Nazis. The majority will agree they have peace when all the Jews in Israel have been killed...in their defense, that is what the Nazi propaganda they use as truth tells them.
You are using the typical Western idea that any conflict can be divided down the middle, Solomon's solution.
No one in the Middle East thinks that way. You can explain it to them until the end of time, but there is no listening when their religions tell them they are correct and those other bastards will rot in hell.
And war crimes.
You mean victor's justice? Careful, first you need the victory.
It's only a war crime if you lose.
Said everyone who ever committed a war crime.
Look, nobody's hands are clean when it comes to war crimes in the Israeli-Palestinean conflict, and anybody who says anything different is selling something. But there's so much hatred on both sides after generations of fighting, being the political "other" in domestic politics in both places, terrorist attacks, invasions (excuse me, "settlements,"), etc... that nobody's clearheaded about it either. The sheer vitriol both sides have for anything that disagrees with their own narrative makes it practically impossible to imagine a solution that will take less than a century.
The cases you've cherry-picked barely scratch the surface. They're not even the most recent examples.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Better question might be why it continues to be popular in parts of Northern and Central Europe and the US. Answer? Because bigotry is a chronic disease.
Oh, by the way, you can think badly of the Israeli government and policies without thinking badly of Jews. Dislike of Bibi Netanyahu does not equal antisemitism.
You are welcome on my lawn.
"It should be no surprise that Israel has weaponized drones" This is especially true seeing how a good bit of US drone technology was developed in Israel. It's never been a secret that Israel uses armed drones.
In that sense, I would put forth that the violence on both sides is irrelevent and a distraction from the real problems of housing, job security, and opportunities for the young people.
At long last, an anti-Israeli sentiment that I do, actually, agree with.
So what's next? How do you improve the Palestinian housing, job security and opportunities, when any Dollar you put into the area goes into corrupt officials pockets? How do you give them opportunities, when Hammas will use those employment opportunities in order to carry out attacks?
Do you know that Hammas has viewed, up until not long ago (possibly still), the Palestinian poverty as an advantage? They're afraid that if the Palestinian standard of living increases, that the support they get will dwindle.
I'm not saying there's nothing Israel can do. I'm also happy to say that this point it finally getting more attention in Israel. Still, the Palestinian have had a lot of control over their own situation, for quite a lot of time now, and have, with the exception of Salam Fiad's short tenure as PM in the west bank, failed to use it to improve things.
Shachar