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The story of how Israel hacked into Iran's internal surveillance network
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Posted on 03/04/2026 4:53:35 PM PST by bigdaddy45

Iran built the most comprehensive civilian surveillance network in the Middle East. Cameras on every street. Facial recognition at universities. License plate readers that automatically fined women for removing their hijab in their own cars. A mobile app called Nazer that let citizens report uncovered women. Drones at beaches. The infrastructure that killed Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and crushed the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising that followed.

Israel hacked nearly all of it.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; surveillance
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This is really remarkable. First they blow Hezbollah's collective balls off, now this. Israel is just incredibly good at this stuff.
1 posted on 03/04/2026 4:53:35 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: bigdaddy45

From the country that pulled of that pager incident, I expect no less.


2 posted on 03/04/2026 4:57:02 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: bigdaddy45

I would prefer we NOT know how they did it, for obvious reasons.


3 posted on 03/04/2026 5:00:21 PM PST by montag813
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To: bigdaddy45

I once heard a question asked of Thomas Sowell as to why the Jews were hated. Sowell’s reply was that people are resentful of the Jews because they are smart.That is being demonstrated everyday.


4 posted on 03/04/2026 5:01:39 PM PST by Fungi
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To: bigdaddy45

Hasn’t anyone heard of OPSEC, Operational Security? This kind of stuff shouldn’t be published anywhere on the internet.


5 posted on 03/04/2026 5:01:55 PM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: ducttape45

Good thing Iran cut off their internet access then :). ssshhhhhh


6 posted on 03/04/2026 5:09:17 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: montag813

> I would prefer we NOT know how they did it, for obvious reasons. <

Some sharp FReeper made an interesting guess here the other day. He said maybe it wasn’t as much hacking as it was on-the-ground intelligence. Of course you can’t admit the latter. So play up the former.

🤔


7 posted on 03/04/2026 5:10:46 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Leaning Right

Some sharp FReeper made an interesting guess here the other day. He said maybe it wasn’t as much hacking as it was on-the-ground intelligence. Of course you can’t admit the latter. So play up the former.
= = =

Yeah

Tell them how you hacked into all their bank accounts and girlfriend lists and so on (when you didn’t).

Watch them panic to purge all that stuff.


8 posted on 03/04/2026 5:15:10 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Fungi

Billy Graham was asked the same question. He said people hate the Jews because they make more money by accident than others do on purpose. (Paraphrased)

I don’t know why I remember that; it’s been decades.


9 posted on 03/04/2026 5:19:07 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: bigdaddy45

One of my faves -

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm first uncovered on 17 June 2010[2] and thought to have been in development since at least 2005. Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and is believed to be responsible for causing substantial damage to the Iran nuclear program after it was first installed on a computer at the Natanz Nuclear Facility in 2009.[3][4] Although neither the United States nor Israel has openly admitted responsibility, multiple independent news organizations claim Stuxnet to be a cyberweapon built jointly by the two countries in a collaborative effort known as Operation Olympic Games.[5][6][7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet


10 posted on 03/04/2026 5:22:41 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: bigdaddy45

Don’t think China isn’t vulnerable as well.


11 posted on 03/04/2026 5:24:10 PM PST by struggle
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To: T.B. Yoits

They say “hacked” because “owned anyway” would expose that they do it in the U.S. also.


12 posted on 03/04/2026 5:30:12 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: bigdaddy45

Mossad is scary. The stuff they pull off is amazing. The whole part about hacking all the cell towers so that those in the meeting got no warning. I don’t think I’d have even thought of that.


13 posted on 03/04/2026 5:39:38 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Fungi

The Jewish people are so obviously superior to other ethnics they get accused of every conspiracy under the sun.


14 posted on 03/04/2026 5:40:21 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Leaning Right

Like the Australian Coast Watchers in the South Pacific in WWII, I have no doubt some of this is just cover for HUMINT Mossad and the CIA have on the ground in Iran. (notice how they don’t talk about that at all).

ie it provides a plausible reason other than spies to explain how they knew what they knew. So when you roll right in on them and catch them flatfooted, they think it was one thing (coast watchers) when it was really another (Magic).


15 posted on 03/04/2026 5:42:23 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Libloather

Stuxnet used no fewer than THREE! Zero Days.

You knew that was a highly sophisticated cyber weapon at that point. That couldn’t possibly have been done by just one hacker.


16 posted on 03/04/2026 5:44:11 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: metmom

Yep.


17 posted on 03/04/2026 7:54:38 PM PST by sauropod
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