Israeli Soldiers Tricked Into Installing Malware by Hamas Agents Posing as Women (zdnet.com) 75
Members of the Hamas Palestinian militant group have posed as young teenage girls to lure Israeli soldiers into installing malware-infected apps on their phones, a spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) said today. From a report: Some soldiers fell for the scam, but IDF said they detected the infections, tracked down the malware, and then took down Hamas' hacking infrastructure. IDF said Hamas operatives created Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram accounts and then approached IDF soldiers. According to IDF spokesperson Brigadier General Hild Silberman, Hamas agents posed as new Israeli immigrants in order to excuse their lacking knowledge of the Hebrew language. IDF investigators said they tracked accounts for six characters used in the recent social engineering campaign. The accounts were named Sarah Orlova, Maria Jacobova, Eden Ben Ezra, Noa Danon, Yael Azoulay, and Rebecca Aboxis, respectively. Soldiers who engaged in conversations were eventually lured towards installing one of three chat apps, named Catch & See, Grixy, and Zatu, where the agents promised to share more photos.
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Bearded militants posing as teenage girls?
There's an Oscar waiting somewhere.
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No that would be men pretending to be women who are pretending to be beared men.
Ha ha (Score:5, Insightful)
It's pretty small payback for stealing an entire country, but it's something I suppose.
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If Israel stole land then Constantinople was stolen. When Turkey gives it back to Greece then I would say that Israel should give back the West Bank to Jordan.
But that's not how things work. The Arab nations attacked and lost. If the Palestinians don't chose to make real peace now in 30 years they'll have nothing. They should have agreed to peace in 1967. They sho
Re: Ha ha (Score:5, Insightful)
Let me steal your land, and lets see how your offsprings will sing in 50 years time.
What about that?
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Thankfully we do not have that many more wars of conquest any more. The jews could have been a small minority within the country of Jordan. But no. This could have been settled after 1948. The Jews did not prevent arab refugees from returning. Those refugees
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The Tibet was conquered by the Qing dynasty China. Do you get your history knowledge off twitter memes? What kind of stupid little cunt are you?
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Let me steal your land, and lets see how your offsprings will sing in 50 years time.
What about that?
In 50 years time this land that was "their land" will be the kind spoken of in bedtime stories, with as much realism to them as Narnia, Wakanda, Latveria, and Zamunda. This is a place that they never set foot into, never seen, and really have no claim to. Losing land in a war has been a condition of humanity since before humans were human. This doesn't mean that they have to like it, or that they can't fight to take the land, only that they cannot call it their land. It's not their land, it never was.
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Do you have a justification for the expansions of Israeli settlements?
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It took the Irish hundreds of years to get their land back. The idea that they'll stop if they don't win in 30 years ignores how many thousands of years they lived there in the past. You replaced your time term by a fantasy.
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funny thing, as what little history I know from those olden days of 100 years or more..
they got along rather well, yes some fighting, but nothing on the order of what's now.
a little killing here, a little killing there, but not a wall blocking both sides from trying to
make peace.
We see in NYC and other places, that arabs and israelis get decently well along. They
know they are in a new town, so they extend out hope for a new generation.
NOT like my fucking town in Hallandale Beach, FL Commissioner Anabelle Li
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If Israel stole land then Constantinople was stolen. When Turkey gives it back to Greece then I would say that Israel should give back the West Bank to Jordan.
Israel is stealing peoples homes TODAY. New refugees are being created TODAY. We're not talking about something that ended a generation ago.
But, sure, I suppose you might not complain if someone came and took everything you own and threw it in the street because "Well, history".
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except, you know, palestine
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How did the Ottoman Empire have control of the land (Palestine)? Oh yeah. They conquered it. By your twisting of things the Turks "stole" it. No they didn't.
How did the British get control of Palestine. Oh yeah. They conquered it from the Turks. There was then a war of Independence and the Israelis won. That's not stealing. If the wars ended in 1948 Palestine would be i
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There was a war. One side one. One side lost. That's not stealing. If you call that stealing then every country has stolen their land.
Just because it's been done before doesn't mean it's not stealing. And yep pretty much every country has stolen (some of) their land. In most cases it's been a settled issue for centuries so it doesn't make sense to do anything.
That's not the case here because the disaster is still ongoing. Or in the case of Russia in Georgia. Or Russia in Ukraine. This always results in all kinds of misery, ethnic cleansing and other crimes which is why the practice is frowned upon. You'll note that Germany is its own coun
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In short there was a war of independence in 1948. Israel won. The arabs could have left well enough alone. Nope. They could have sued for peace after the 1967 war. Nope. After the 1973 war. Nope. They could have made peace wit
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Please don't bring in such sophistry.
If you've paid any attention to human history you will have noticed that countries exist as a result of armed conflict. If you went to any ruler before the modern era and asked "by what right" do you have this land he would have raised his sword and said - "by this". Palestine and Israel were part of Jordan. If the Jordanians and the arabs were civil and did not attack civilian
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If you call that stealing then every country has stolen their land.
Dang it he's so close.
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Uh, sure, history is that simple. /sarcasm
Perhaps "steal" is too emotional a word, but the fact is that Israel did not come into its current government through a mere revolution or international war. It was largely through political manipulations, which had been underway for decades. In short, you have a minority group using power and influence with western governments in order to seize control over lands in a way that effectively disenfranchises the majority. Is that theft? I don't know, but it certainly i
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We have tons of newspaper and other primary sources from the time pointing that out. There were numerous books written in the 1950s and 1960s pointing this out. A lot of historians and politicians thought that Israel was an anomaly which wasn't going to last long and was upsetting the balance of power there (which they didn't lik
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You seem to be dancing around the initial creation of Israel in your weird validation argument.
I do agree with one point, it seems to be done, fair or unfair.
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There are more Jews in New York than in Israel. You seem a bit confused about who the parties to the conflict are.
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Well I did some fact checking, and yes, it seems that the population of "jews" is greater than or equal in USA than in Israel. Studies seem to show it. but not double in the USA as wiki tends to cite.
I could be wrong but I will error on the side of less that can be accurately accounted for, then the gross estimates out of scope.
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You can capitalize all sorts of words, but not Jews, why is that? Are you allergic?
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I capitalized 3 words, USA 2 times and Israel once. Jews ( start of sentence ) in the case I
was using was all denomination of Judaism, therefore I felt it did not require capitalization.
Are you some sort of Grammar Nazi???
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There are more people of Irish decent in America than there are in Ireland. So Ireland doesn't belong to the Irish, then?
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You've got some oranges mixed into your bag of apples, there, bucko.
The accurate transposition to talking about the Irish would be that because not all Catholics are in Ireland, therefore, being Catholic doesn't imply that you're also Irish, that you support Ireland, or that Ireland supports you. The correct word when talking about citizens of Ireland is Irish, not Catholic.
Just like, the correct term for people who live in Israel, when discussing regional politics, is Israeli. And New York doesn't speak fo
Re: Ha ha (Score:2)
Israilis are illegal immigrants
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And, by the way it wasn't illegal until post WWI. And then war ships patrolled and prevent immigrants.
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Are you an illegal immigrant?
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Israilis are illegal immigrants
As are most Americans.
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Lol, based on what argument ?
What was the pre-US immigration policy exactly ?
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Lol, based on what argument ?
What was the pre-US immigration policy exactly ?
Exactly, it was using iron-age weapons against a stone-age civilization.
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No. Israel didn't steal anything.
They did and are. When soldiers walk up to a house, kick the door in, throw the owners onto the street and then let a new family walk in and take possession that's stealing. It's not war and it's not legal and it's not moral.
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Meanwhile in American history, "Me um take your land Chief."
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It's pretty small payback for stealing an entire country, but it's something I suppose.
A few years from now, we’ll find out that farmersonly.com was actually an undercover action run by Chippewa nationalists.
Bottleneck event coming (Score:1)
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18 and 19 is teenage and legal, you violent psychotic freak
and in israel 16 and 17 count as well
so there are three "teen" ages that are illegal
13 14 15
but 16 17 18 19 are "teen" ages and legal
so more than half the "teen" years are legal in israel
you unmedicated dr phil showcase
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IDF detected
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Israeli Dating Force?
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btw, why is 11 and 12 not "teenage"
they are.
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No, it's probably because the idiot fucking soldiers are most likely teens themselves as the draft age is 18.
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When you're 18, 13 and 14 i.e. "young teens" are still enough to get you thrown into jail in civilized countries. There's no Romeo & Juliet law enough to cover a gap that wide.
Why all the sudden sympathy for the IDF? They're the ones who literally built a wall to keep out immigrants. They shoot innocent civilians all the time. Why would anyone leap to their defense?
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Why all the sudden sympathy for the IDF? They're the ones who literally built a wall to keep out immigrants. They shoot innocent civilians all the time. Why would anyone leap to their defense?
I will leap to their defense because Israel is perhaps the only free nation in the region. They do not shoot "innocent civilians" because the border is well marked, there's a kilometer wide "no man's land" between the border and the wall defending the border. Crossing the border is not an "innocent" act. Of course they built a wall to keep out immigrants, because immigrants from Israel's neighbors have a habit of exploding. It might not bee so bad if they explode in their own nation, or even within Isra
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This is what is modded "insightful" on slashdot?
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It's a federal holiday celebrating our presidents. We'll take what we can get for comments, because it's still better than what we get for presidents.
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Personality disorder? Rich coming from someone that needs to hide their identity.
Cowardice like yours is the real disorder.
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"posed as young teenage girls to lure Israeli soldiers"
And the idiot fucking soldiers fell for it because they are pedophile fucks who love to fuck under-aged girls.
Ah, yes, if only they preferred mature women like, er, Arabs do ...
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How young of "young teenage girls" ? (Score:2, Offtopic)
Most online dating sites are not populated by young women. They're populated by bots, variants of the old "Eliza" program designed to lure the men into signing up for paid websites where the "contact" will never be found, but there are even more bots, for which you are now paying a monthly subscription fee. I walked a few younger colleagues through the scam and how it works.
Populating such an online site with profiles with pictures of pretty girls seems, well, an elementary extension of the same kind of abu
Palestinian militant apps (Score:2)
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many armed forces do....
Israel in this case.
USA when they posted the workouts with gps coordinates in Iraq and Afghanistan
Russia posting invasion pictures on instagram of parts of the Ukraine.
I bet we can find more, but these are the one's I can think of right now
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Taken down? (Score:2)
Israel's usual approach to taking down their enemies should be used by the civilized world more often.
I hope, they used it themselves in this case too.
How to avoid this (Score:1)
No international internet on duty. Swap out troops much more often so everyone gets contact again but on their own home networks only.
2. Educate troops on the slag, terms, look, words, comments, images.. Get the troops to report all internet contact attempts. Reporting gets rewards. Make it a game.
Recall "Cherbourg Project" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] and how
"groups of two at differe
Lesson STILL not learned (Score:1)
Lesson is - Don't think with your cock. Lesson is thousands of years old. They really should have known better.