Alleged Israeli spy company targeted Starlink users

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alleged-israeli-spy-company-heavily-targeted-starlink-users-sources-say-2026-10-27/

72•mmaia•2h ago

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slowin•1h ago

A lot more information here: https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targ...

ChrisArchitect•26m ago

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101813

purpleflame1257•49m ago

Weird sentence structure. It makes it sound like the company is accused of being Israeli.

dmix•45m ago

> aimed at Starlink users and that it was the No. 1 bidder on Starlink traffic in more than 100 countries, including several where Starlink itself was banned or restricted.

Some counter espionage program? Maybe spies use Starlink instead of radios these days.

augstein•19m ago

Increasingly obvious and annoying, even to most normies, that Israel is nowadays the main obstacle not only to lasting peace in the middle east (and various other regions) but also a major menace to anyone valuing their right to (digital) privacy.

tptacek•4m ago

Basically every major industrialized country in the world has firms that do stuff like this, and worse.

sentientlaserbe•40s ago

No, Israel is definitely the world leader in spying. They have a wonderful relationship with the American political class, enabling access to what the US has, and with asymmetry protecting Israelis over Americans, plus their own clandestine spying against influential Americans, and their operations all over the world. Their part among the players doesn't detract from grievances against Israel - it adds to it.

myth_drannon•3m ago

Having worked in the adtech many years ago, there are a lot questionable practices and companies, curiously only the Israeli one are singled out(and get to top of HN). Huge number of adtech companies are American, many are Chinese or Indian and others. I hoped with Ukrainians destroying Yandex data centers the obsession with jews and Israel (a jew among the nation) would subdue on HN but alas ...

Only 100 years ago those things were said and now I see the repeat of it. "The Jew has no interest in the solution of the questions regarding the German fate. . . . The Jew has caused our misery, and today he makes a living from it." -Joseph Goebbels, 30 July 1928

everdrive•19m ago

Why wouldn't they? We already know that militaries and governments use StarLink. I'll bet dissidents and terrorists use them as well.

I'm not offering my support of this, but it's just not a surprising state of affairs.

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