I bet it's going to be linked to NSA, GCHQ and IDF in tomorrow's news paper.
Barak Weichselbaum founded Komodia, Inc. in 2000, following his military service as a programmer in the IDF’s Intelligence Core.
But you don't need to worry about provenance to see that technically this is a scary thing to do.
It usually works.
Consription in the IDF’s Intelligence Core doesn't
You laughed out loud? That's good. You should tell Barak that, I just pasted his own statement:
--- http://www.komodia.com/about/
Barak Weichselbaum founded Komodia, Inc. in 2000, following his military service as a programmer in the IDF’s Intelligence Core.
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Phhh, more likely an attempt at controlling knowledge of the "Intelligence Core"!
If this guy had been in a part of the US military (all volunteer, which shows disposition) that frequently gets loaned out to the CIA or NSA (Force recon, Delta, Seals, etc) then the concern would be reasonable, but that isn't the case here.
Catholicism doesn't allow for condoms. Most Irish are catholic. Therefor most Irish don't use condoms.
The logic isn't sound. The conclusion might be true (I know nothing about Irish birth control), but the statement can't be logically proven given the proceeding input.
The military spies. Most citizens are required to be in the military. Therefor most citizens are spies.
Again, the logic doesn't follow and is obviously flawed.
As we all know thanks to Edward Snowden, there are many Powerpoint Rangers in the military invading privacy, operating lethal drones, and killing people from their flying desks.
My point is that you don't have to be in an elite group info sec pros to menace people's privacy and security.
You claimed that "these are the same people that monitor cctv feeds of border fences - it isn't some elite unit of super hackers.", so even if you don't consider those tasks of much importance, and even if they're not some elite unit of super hacker, that doesn't cancel out the fact that they're menacing to everyone's privacy and security that they're invading.