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Forget Y Combinator -- come build the next great surveillance start-up at the IDF's Unit 8200, the world's greatest hacker school and incubator for mass surveil
by atdt 5y ago
Forget Y Combinator -- come build the next great surveillance start-up at the IDF's Unit 8200, the world's greatest hacker school and incubator for mass surveillance start-ups. With generous subsidies from US taxpayers, Unit 8200 lets you level up your surveillance game by practicing on 4.5 million Palestinian beta-testers. (Go nuts, it's not like they can sue you!) Plus, say goodbye to those moral qualms -- at 8200, you'll acquire the unshakeable conviction that you're a Good Guy fighting the Bad Guys. When you graduate, the IDF will keep the data you collected, but the skills you acquire and the friends you make are yours to keep forever.
- vnchr 5y agoWhere do I sign up?
- RNCTX 5y agoYour local ADL office
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- greatjack613 5y ago@dang This comment is negative, and doesn't contribute anything productive to the conversation. Please remove
- kvathupo 5y agoEh, the comment made me google to learn more about Unit 8200. That said, surely you can agree the removal of comments we don't like is undemocratic. Further, no one user is the boss of this site's moderators. Here's a relevant article [1]: moderators are human too :) [1] - https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
- midasuni 5y ago8200 has many alumni including many security products, including those protesting about the treatment of Palestinians This is despite being members of the IDF https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/09/12/israels-nsa-staff-refuse-to-fight-palestinians/ https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/09/12/israels-nsa-st...
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- a1369209993 5y ago> the IDF's Unit 8200 Motto: "At least we're less evil than Unit 731, right?"
- fortran77 5y agoUnit 8200 gets no money from U.S. Taxpayers.
- jprd 5y agoI will presume that this comment was made with forthrightness and lack of information rather than attempting to obfuscate a fairly obvious funding funnel from the US -> IDF -> 8200. The US gov't provides billions, yearly, in monetary aid and guaranteed loans to Israel specifically for military funding. Sure, most of that has earmarks, but that's the way the game is played. This doesn't account for anything in the black budget, which as you can imagine, probably includes quite a bit for this realm. With Israel currently considered an indispensable intelligence partner (and thusly an outsourced R&D partner), I find it hard to suspend disbelief enough to accept that U.S. taxpayers aren't funding Unit 8200 just because there isn't a line item in public budgets.
- fortran77 5y agoSo you admit this claim is just based on your hunch. This makes it a malicious lie.
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