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> The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along

> The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the account’s maps and calendar profiles. I'm interested to know more about the nature of the lapse here. Is there a bug in Amazon where self-publishers expose their account email addresses? Or was it more like, he shared Google Map and Google Calendar content in the book, not realizing that those features exposed his real email?

nolongerthere 2y ago
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- ziddoap 2y ago
  >but likely it’s a disgruntled Amazon employee who has a bone to pick with Jews What a wild assumption. How on earth do you figure this is the "likely" situation?
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- redserk 2y ago
  This isn't "likely", this is a guess rooted in outlandish political discourse.
TrueDuality 2y ago
From that line and a few others in the article Amazon doesn't seem to be involved at all. It seems like there was a Gmail account created to receive feedback, corrections, reviews, and media outreach that was also supposed to be relatively anonymous but was registered with his actual name which would be visible to anyone that he responded to at the very least, but may also show up through other account associations.
- dmix 2y ago
  The article also said he created that email specifically for the book to deal with queries. So it's possible there's more to it. > Contacted by the Guardian, an IDF spokesperson said the email address was not Sariel’s personal one, but “dedicated specifically for issues to do with the book itself”.
- SV_BubbleTime 2y ago
  I figured it wasn’t “small nation state bug discovered in supply chain” but rather “yea, he used his real name”.
  - TrueDuality 2y ago
    It's always a small detail that gets you... You only have to fail once for your OPSEC to crumble into nothing.
ArunRaja 2y ago
> Email Id with unique id leaked What's the unique id here ? SSN number / military id,...?
- NomDePlum 2y ago
  His name
Shrezzing 2y ago
The book is published under a pseudonym made up or his rank and initials and the blurb on Amazon reads: >[pseudonym], an expert analyst, technology director, commander of an elite intelligence unit, and winner of the prestigious Israel Defense Prize for his artificial intelligence based anti-terrorism project The defense prize projects & unit conducting the projects are published in The Times of Israel. The person's rank & name is publicly known from other historic news articles. With that context, the google account and Amazon weren't really important to linking the General to the unit in question.
- stef25 2y ago
  Where did you find that this person even exists ? If the email is yossi.sariel@gmail.com then you still need some kind IDF directory that lists his name, along with his current position. A name alone doesn't mean shit. I think ?
  - alephnerd 2y ago
    Israel is a very small country. It has the population and size of the Bay Area. Everyone is basically a 2nd or 3rd level connection. It has it's pros (eg. VC and Entrepreneurship is much easier because the barrier to entry is lower) but also it's cons (gossip flows very quickly, and it's fairly easy to unmask someone). This is also why the IDF is so ferocious in Gaza - everyone in Israel and the Diaspora either knows someone or is related to someone who died either on 10/7 or during the deployment (eg. I'm from the west coast yet an elementary school classmate of mine died in the Nova massacre, and a couple former coworkers were mobilized to Gaza because they had an infantry MOS back in the day) so there is no appetite for reconciliation. Also, most of 8200 basically leaves and joins the private sector after a couple years, and the younger guys (post-2010) seem to have sloppy opsec compared to the older ones, for example publicly listing that they are ex-8200 on LinkedIn or social media. The IDF, Shabak, Aman, and Mossad have all deteriorated severely since the 2000s, because the best and the brightest in Israel now have private sector options that pay way more and give you way more fame, instead of working as a relatively underpaid bureaucrat in a country just as expensive as the Bay Area. A similar trend is happening in Singapore as well, as almost all my A*STAR friends and classmates broke bond and naturalized in the US instead of returning. Only those whose families owned a house or a car returned (iykyk).
aaron695 2y ago
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nolongerthere 2y ago

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ziddoap 2y ago
>but likely it’s a disgruntled Amazon employee who has a bone to pick with Jews What a wild assumption. How on earth do you figure this is the "likely" situation?
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redserk 2y ago
This isn't "likely", this is a guess rooted in outlandish political discourse.

TrueDuality 2y ago

From that line and a few others in the article Amazon doesn't seem to be involved at all. It seems like there was a Gmail account created to receive feedback, corrections, reviews, and media outreach that was also supposed to be relatively anonymous but was registered with his actual name which would be visible to anyone that he responded to at the very least, but may also show up through other account associations.

dmix 2y ago
The article also said he created that email specifically for the book to deal with queries. So it's possible there's more to it. > Contacted by the Guardian, an IDF spokesperson said the email address was not Sariel’s personal one, but “dedicated specifically for issues to do with the book itself”.
SV_BubbleTime 2y ago
I figured it wasn’t “small nation state bug discovered in supply chain” but rather “yea, he used his real name”.
- TrueDuality 2y ago
  It's always a small detail that gets you... You only have to fail once for your OPSEC to crumble into nothing.

ArunRaja 2y ago

> Email Id with unique id leaked What's the unique id here ? SSN number / military id,...?

NomDePlum 2y ago
His name

Shrezzing 2y ago

The book is published under a pseudonym made up or his rank and initials and the blurb on Amazon reads: >[pseudonym], an expert analyst, technology director, commander of an elite intelligence unit, and winner of the prestigious Israel Defense Prize for his artificial intelligence based anti-terrorism project The defense prize projects & unit conducting the projects are published in The Times of Israel. The person's rank & name is publicly known from other historic news articles. With that context, the google account and Amazon weren't really important to linking the General to the unit in question.

stef25 2y ago
Where did you find that this person even exists ? If the email is yossi.sariel@gmail.com then you still need some kind IDF directory that lists his name, along with his current position. A name alone doesn't mean shit. I think ?
- alephnerd 2y ago
  Israel is a very small country. It has the population and size of the Bay Area. Everyone is basically a 2nd or 3rd level connection. It has it's pros (eg. VC and Entrepreneurship is much easier because the barrier to entry is lower) but also it's cons (gossip flows very quickly, and it's fairly easy to unmask someone). This is also why the IDF is so ferocious in Gaza - everyone in Israel and the Diaspora either knows someone or is related to someone who died either on 10/7 or during the deployment (eg. I'm from the west coast yet an elementary school classmate of mine died in the Nova massacre, and a couple former coworkers were mobilized to Gaza because they had an infantry MOS back in the day) so there is no appetite for reconciliation. Also, most of 8200 basically leaves and joins the private sector after a couple years, and the younger guys (post-2010) seem to have sloppy opsec compared to the older ones, for example publicly listing that they are ex-8200 on LinkedIn or social media. The IDF, Shabak, Aman, and Mossad have all deteriorated severely since the 2000s, because the best and the brightest in Israel now have private sector options that pay way more and give you way more fame, instead of working as a relatively underpaid bureaucrat in a country just as expensive as the Bay Area. A similar trend is happening in Singapore as well, as almost all my A*STAR friends and classmates broke bond and naturalized in the US instead of returning. Only those whose families owned a house or a car returned (iykyk).

aaron695 2y ago

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