“Civilian Internet applications now offer militant groups access to intelligence that rivals what government spies can get, Israel’s domestic security chief said on Monday,” Dan Williams reports for Reuters.
“Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin, in a rare public address, identified cyber technologies as an ascendant international security threat,” Williams reports. “‘Intelligence once enjoyed only by countries and world powers can now be obtained through Internet systems like Google Earth, Internet cameras that are deployed all over the world and linked to the Web, or applications for IPhone devices that allow for quality intelligence to be received in real-time,’ he told a homeland security conference in Tel Aviv.”
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…and speaking of ‘off topics’ off topically,
Congrats to the Giants!
Well played….but we’ll be back!!! (I hope)
But did google see the game?
But did google see the game?
Google sees all….
Google sees all….
I have no doubt that what troubles this Israeli security chief most (as well as the security chiefs of every other country) is the fact that these technologies now allow us to know as much as they do about things they would rather we not know. Particularly as concerns information about them.
I have no doubt that what troubles this Israeli security chief most (as well as the security chiefs of every other country) is the fact that these technologies now allow us to know as much as they do about things they would rather we not know. Particularly as concerns information about them.
@ KenC
“Imagine what James Bond could have done with an iPhone!!!”
He would have used it once, pushed the installed self-destruct button, and then tossed it in the car/boat/private jet of his enemy. And that would be the end of his iPhone.
At least until the next movie when Q would hand him an iPad at tell Bond to “be carful with it!”
@ KenC
“Imagine what James Bond could have done with an iPhone!!!”
He would have used it once, pushed the installed self-destruct button, and then tossed it in the car/boat/private jet of his enemy. And that would be the end of his iPhone.
At least until the next movie when Q would hand him an iPad at tell Bond to “be carful with it!”
@The Other Steve
You have some nerve trying to derail this political thread and to make it about computers or something
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@The Other Steve
You have some nerve trying to derail this political thread and to make it about computers or something
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