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Israel Spent Years Hacking Tehran Traffic Cameras to Track Khamenei

49 points by gambutin

by lbreakjai

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How much of that is true, and how much of that is to cover and protect the actual humans on the ground feeding most of the intelligence?
I doubt they'd let their secret leak so soon into the conflict if it was even half as useful as the articles I read claim. Now on the other hand, if I wanted the Iranian counterintelligence to waste time investigating and even taking the cameras offline ...

by quantified

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Good think Flock has such strong E2E encryption and internal controls on who can access camera data.

by LetDogsVote

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Was mass surveillance even necessary? He was sitting in his home compound in central Tehran with his grandchildren. He wasn't hiding and had resigned himself to martyrdom.

by pier25

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Anyone remembers stuxnet? Apparently part of a US and Israel joint operation called Olympic Games [1].
In the documentary Zero Days some anonymous source mentions there was another project within Olympic Games called Nitro Zeus[2]. This was a complete takeover of Iran's infrastructure.
I wonder if these hacks we're seeing are the remains of Nitro Zeus.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Olympic_Games
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro_Zeus

by aussieguy1234

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These types of cameras are quite useful to authoritarian regimes for tracking dissidents and tracking protests.
So it's possible the release of this knowledge could be a ploy to encourage the Iranians to shut them down.

by 49421

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by mdni007

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Good thing Isreal is our greatest ally. If they were our enemy they'd be doing this to Americans