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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.)
And war crimes.
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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.
The cases you've cherry-picked barely scratch the surface. They're not even the most recent examples.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
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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.
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