The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself

Re:The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed i... by deaux on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:33AM (#47036291)

> So either you have to go down a very dark rabbit hole

So even after "there's a child sex trafficking island where all the elites have gone to party for decades" you're still skeptical of that claim? Knowing about Mossad operations? With Bibi on the record saying

> Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank

With most of the world's spyware, including Pegasus and NSO group, having hailed from Israel?

It's not "going down a very dark rabbit hole", it's the by far most likely option and therefore your whole comment makes no sense, presuming the much less likely option.

If we're still not at the point where we stop being this naive, my god..

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Re:The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed i... by tzs on Monday February 16, 2026 @12:13PM (#47037545)

> So even after "there's a child sex trafficking island where all the elites have gone to party for decades" you're still skeptical of that claim?

That may be a little exaggerated [1].

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ap-review-on-what-the-ep...

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Re:The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed i... by somenameforme on Monday February 16, 2026 @11:02PM (#47043567)

So the elites were flying in on the Lolita Express to an island filled with underage sex workers, to a venue with luridity abounds, hosted by a convicted pedophile, to discuss philanthropy?

Or might it be that the entire political class is filled with moral degenerates devoid of ethics, to nobody's surprise. And so consequently you are effectively having suspects investigate themselves only to conclude 'nah, nobody did anything wrong except the dead guy, but he's dead so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ '

Even that report notes at least 4 or 5 victims stated they were abused by other men and women besides Epstein. So it's gone from #MeToo to #Only4or5. If you are ever curious what creates cynics like me...

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Re:The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed i... by delichon on Monday February 16, 2026 @11:04AM (#47036707)

> If we're still not at the point where we stop being this naive, my god.

That is a naive statement given that 75% of the world's population identifies with an established religion, and each of those have evidence free beliefs such as virgin birth, reincarnation, the existence of hell, etc.

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Re:The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed i... by Pay08 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @01:31AM (#47044352)

You either have no context for that quote or have intentionally misrepresented it. Hamas started out as an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, with both being charities at the beginning. They both became political arms a little later, with Hamas being far, far less radical than the PLO at the time. The idea behind funding Hamas was to either cause a civil war between them and the PLO or to have the less radical Hamas faction take over the PLO. Obviously, it didn't work but that doesn't mean the idea doesn't have merit and has been used elsewhere successfully (Israel didn't come up with this tactic).

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