The Little-Known Firm Helping the FBI Crack iPhones

Re:The Little-Known Firm Helping the FBI Crack iPhones by vinalia on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:58PM (#11399151)

It sounds like Cellebrite employees are largely ex unit 8200 members (Israel's SIGNIT program).[1] The article really doesn't seem to talk about Cellebrite's history much at all.

[1]http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fbi-cracks-the-locked-iphone-... (he says unit 822 :/, doh)

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Re:The Little-Known Firm Helping the FBI Crack iPhones by dkopi on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:52PM (#11399584)

Any tech company in israel is largely ex unit 8200 members, along with other military tech units such as Mamram, Lotem, Matzov, Ofek and more.

The Israeli military enlists every 18 year old in the country, and if you've studied computers in high-school or at home as a hobby, you're more than likely to spend 3-6 years in a technological unit.

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Re:The Little-Known Firm Helping the FBI Crack iPhones by ethanbond on Thursday March 31, 2016 @07:44PM (#11401467)

Is 8200 really considered to be just a "technological unit?" They're one of the most advanced military SIGINT organizations on earth, aren't they?

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