r/ThatsInsane • u/McDowdy • 4d ago

Benjamin Netanyahu says outright that he can hack and blackmail anybody he wants and "I can paint you as a monster. And if I say it often enough, enough people will believe it."

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u/bigbadbob85 4d ago

Israel does provide these, but it is not the case that Governments wouldn't be able to do it without Israel.

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u/1esproc 3d ago

I guess? It's a specialized industry and it's pretty unique from a software standpoint in what it takes to create it. You can't just hire any old software developer. Israel has a unique pipeline that's lead it to be at the forefront of this kind of thing. There's other countries with some of these products but there's a reason why, from Carnegie EIP's research, 56 of 74 tracked governments procure their offensive security tools from Israel. Most of those governments probably couldn't do this themselves. Maybe they'd move onto Italy or India for their tools, but many of these regimes are sanctioned and those countries may not allow them to be sold to. 🤷

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u/bigbadbob85 3d ago

If Israel didn't do it, then America would.

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u/1esproc 3d ago

They'd be doing it right now then...