AFP
Aug 18, 2011
Israel’s military has set up a cyberdefense division, primarily against the Iranian threat, thus boosting the country’s cyberwar capabilities after it allegedly attacked Tehran’s nuclear program in 2010 with the Stuxnet virus and changed the face of warfare.
The Jerusalem Post reports that the new unit in the C4I Directorate — command, control, communications, computers and intelligence — is headed by an army colonel who formerly commanded Matzov, the Hebrew acronym for the Center for Encryption and Information Security.
That’s the unit previously responsible for protecting military networks and strategic state concerns such as water and electricity from cyberattack.
The addition of the cyberdefense division followed the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in July of the creation of a National Cybernetic Task Force, believed to comprise at least 80 people, to defend Israel’s vital infrastructure from Internet-based strikes.
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WHAT IRANIAN THREAT ?!!
Iran has a growing population and needs electricity for peoples homes and jobs, they were approved for nuclear energy, then constantly harassed by paranoid Israeli government “theyre gonna build nuclear weapons aaaahhhggg!!”, when Israel has hundreds of the damn things!
last year a ship was sunk offa Korea and it was found to be a German made torpedo..
2-3 weeks later Israeli government said they had 3 German made subs parked off the coast of Iran, gee, just about enough time for a sub to get from point A to B, but naaw, that isnt anything suspicious at all..
THIS IS ALL BS!!
IF, govt here told the baled out US automakers to start building permanent magnet alternators, blades, hubs, and grid feeding controller boxes for 5 mini windmills on every rooftop, the systems would pay for themselves in 1-2 years most places, lowering the demand and price of energy from the grid, providing manufacturing, installation, maintenance jobs, AND have valuable items for export to help OUR economy that DC treasonously sabotaged with NAFTA-GATT etc.
they’ll drill all day-week-month-year long for OIL, but they wont drill for HEAT to use geothermal steam to spin the turbines to produce electricity, because there wouldnt be any DEPLETED URANIUM MUNITIONS to poison the friggin Earth with!! (they were in a panic when they ran out of DU recently). nuclear power is NOT “cheap” nor “bio-friendly” !!!
screw Israel! they run around instigating tons of BS then cry they’re the victim EVERY TIME!
how “great” would they be without their 3+ billion welfare checks every year? theyre handed all the tech contracts, security contracts to spy on US citizens.. is treasonous as all hell..
they make Palestinians live like animals then throw hissyfits if they behave as such!
to an extent I can understand Israeli governments paranoia after things they DO, but GAWDDAMN,
if they were so afraid of IRAN having nuclear energy and possibly nuclear weapons they could have proposed to help them build geothermal powerplants and avoided all this BS completely!
drilling some deep holes into the ground probably costs lot less than building a gawddamn reactor.
and no, I dont have any respect for a welfare-warfare “state” that is running concentration camps, instigating BS, and always crying to “mommy US” and “uncle UN” for backup. I think its likely they have several ICBM’s trained on DC just in case they dont get their welfare checks too.