In mid-March, Google announced that it was paying the staggering sum of $32 billion for the acquisition of the Israeli cloud-computing security company Wiz. The acquisition, pending regulatory approval, will be the largest ever of an Israeli firm.
What was left unsaid in Google’s announcement, however, were the personal backgrounds of its four founders. The co-founders of Wiz—Yinon Costica, Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, and Roy Reznik—are all veterans of Unit 8200, the signals intelligence division of the Israeli military, which is playing a key role in helping to carry out Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
Unit 8200 is an elite unit in the Israeli military tasked with intelligence gathering, surveillance, codebreaking, as well as cybersecurity operations and hacking. In addition to its role collecting information for intelligence reports, the unit has also been accused by former veterans of carrying out mass surveillance of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories for the purpose of “political persecution,” as well as providing information used for targeted killings, sometimes based on over-broad interpretations of surveillance data.
Because obviously you need military intelligence in… what is it Google does again… adtech /s
AGI is already here: Adtech and Genocide Intelligence
“Military intelligence” my ass, it’s a meaningless term. You’re using military intelligence-derived tech every day.
From what I’ve read Wiz work in commercial cloud security, but I’m sure Google wouldn’t mind a slice of the defence budget. Don’t know whose though. Not to mention, they have a shitload of their own services that could benefit from having them in-house.
Just wondering if you also read the article.
Yeah, everybody knows google is evil by now. My last sentence is a bit redundant but whatever.