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Netanyahu's cybersecurity official arrested in Vegas in child sex sting
- andy99 1y agoNormally (at least in the US) intelligence personnel are heavily vetted for this sort of thing, as a pretty obviously vector for blackmail etc. I wonder if the role, apparently "executive director of the Israel Cyber Directorate" did not need a real security clearance, or if it just wasn't detected? (Also unclear why he would have been released)
- duxup 1y agoI'll guess that maybe this job is less so about qualifications and he knew the right people and they trusted him.
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- nujabe 1y ago[flagged]
- ath3nd 1y ago> After all Israel is the wakanda of pedos. I thought that was any religious institution in the US and abroad! Nice to know that Christian priests and conservatives don't have monopoly on abusing children. /s - https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c74103d3971o https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c74103d3971o (3 days ago) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_c... (so prominent, that they have wiki page) - https://home.crin.org/readlistenwatch/stories/sex-abuse-data-from-polands-catholic-church-is-decades-too-late https://home.crin.org/readlistenwatch/stories/sex-abuse-data... (Poland) - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67238572 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67238572 (Spain) - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64626077 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64626077 (Portugal) It seems all the pedos in the world are either connected by religion, being war criminals and genociders (Israel), or simply rich (Trump/Clinton/Epstein).
- like_any_other 1y agoOr they're teachers: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=teacher+sex+with+pupils&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=teacher+sex+with+pupils&ia=web Or maybe no conclusions can be drawn without per-capita offense rates. Of course it's interesting that there are not many articles about sex offenders fleeing to other countries, especially since Israel has such a small population.
- ath3nd 1y agoIt's always a Christian, eh? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/20/chris-brain-former-vicar-guilty-indecent-assault https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/20/chris-brain-...
- ath3nd 1y agoOr, really, they are Christians: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0145213424003363-gr1.jpg https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S01452134240033... Cause statistically, a Christian man in a leadership position (i.e priest/pastor) is much more likely to be a child abuser. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145213424003363 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014521342...
- like_any_other 1y agoA study limited to organized religious institutions, in a country where, of all religions, Christians are the overwhelming majority, found that most of the abuse occurred in Christian institutions? What a shock. It even omits how many of the respondents were from which religion (despite including such a breakdown for respondent age), so we can't work out per-capita numbers. But despite trying very hard to work backwards from a conclusion, the study is not entirely useless - it contains two pieces of actual information: it reported that 0.4% were sexually abused by an adult or leader in a religious institution, and that boys were 8x more likely to be abused than girls. So we can conclude that children are 10x more likely to be abused by a public school teacher [1], and that homosexuals are 8x more likely to abuse than heterosexuals. [1] An earlier survey of 4,340 adults examining sexual attitudes and experiences reported that 4.1 percent of respondents had a physical sexual experience with a teacher. - https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/report.pdf https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/rschstat/research/pubs/mis... page 18
- tharmas 1y agoI think its pretty clear why he was released.
- spwa4 1y agoI guess it's like vetting the secretary of education for ... well, you know, having some idea of what she's talking about? https://gizmodo.com/trumps-education-chief-linda-mcmahon-repeatedly-calls-ai-a1-in-school-speech-2000587329 https://gizmodo.com/trumps-education-chief-linda-mcmahon-rep... More seriously, I have worked for a few years as a consultant in upper government and here's how it works: the upper levels of government know what they're doing. But there is a level where it switches from career bureaucrats to appointees and elected officials. You can CLEARLY tell exactly where this line is without having to look anything up). You can also clearly tell by the pay. The difference between levels is like 10-30% per level, then the level where it switches to mostly appointees there's a 200% jump and then a 500% jump where it switches to elected officials. Or that's how it works in the EU. Did you know that most governments have strict pay levels? Which suck for any position other than parliamentarian or government minister, and even there ... Which has the funny consequence that as a EU safety inspector, the director level (which is an appointed position) you make more than the German chancellor. Not too far from the French president either (not including side benefits, like the housing). Which I guess it what leads to people like the current French president, because the idea that he wants that position for the prestige, or out of patriottism is just completely absurd. One can wonder what the guy does want. But, I guess the same is true of Trump ...
- orwin 1y agoI worked with Brussels for one of the 'h2020' projects, that checks out. COVID didn't change anything. And this high level of pay have _no_ impact on corruption. Zero. None. In my experience, it's the opposite even. Bureaucrats keep saying 'i don't think that's a good idea, let's ask the experts we hired what they think' and the elected/appointed official say 'lets do it anyway, my friend as SAP/Atos say we're good'. French are the worst also, but maybe because I feel like Atos is the worst company that ever existed and appointed officials call them for everything. You want some subvention? Use 85% of it to buy their bullion shit, as well as their service contract (which is them basically sending mails to redhat because they're incompetent fucks). They hire incompetent at all levels. The few who aren't probably leave early.
- bigyabai 1y ago> Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, faces felony charges of luring a child with a computer for a sex act > He has since evidently been released from custody and returned to Israel. That is a terrifying level of criminal impunity. If I was an Israeli citizen, I wouldn't feel very safe knowing these sorts of people are protected by the government.
- duxup 1y agoReleased and allowed to return to Israel. That's some horrific level of impunity.
- belter 1y agoSame level of impunity that had this post flagged while its 100% factual.
- pseudo0 1y agoSo they let a guy charged with a felony who was an obvious flight risk out on a $10k bond, didn't even take his passport, and he just hopped on his return flight home? What a joke. Israel does not extradite, so he's effectively home-free now.
- tharmas 1y ago[flagged]
- klipklop 1y agoUntil the country collapses.
- NomDePlum 1y agoAlso posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44929630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44929630 under updated title. Neither flagged but also not returned by search. Unclear why.