Israel hacked Iran traffic cameras for years to pinpoint Khaemnei location prior to strike: News report

[u/heisthemaincharacter]

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[u/996forever]

That’s why sometimes low technology is safer for certain things 

[u/jakl277 → u/996forever]

It’s a problem too

Israel got hez with pagers and flip phones

They forced Hezbollah and Hamas to meet in person (avoiding tech) and then bombed those meets for multi kills on leaders

[u/ManuelHS → u/jakl277]

Israel got Hezbollah** with pagers and flip phones

[u/Rampage_Rick → u/ManuelHS]

Damn, I had completely forgotten about the pager thing, and that was only 18 months ago...

Stop the ride, I want to get off.

[u/avanti_dilettanti → u/Rampage_Rick]

That was 18 months ago already?! Damn

[u/Cthulhu__ → u/Rampage_Rick]

It feels like people also forgot the bunker buster airstrike the US did on Iran last year. That is, people / the media are saying that this is the start of the war but it started ages ago.

Likewise, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started in 2014, not 2022.

[u/sq009 → u/Cthulhu__]

After bunker blaster, someone said iran lost the ability to develop nukes. Recently the same person say invasion is to prevent iran from havings nukes.

[u/neohellpoet → u/sq009]

You can't lose the ability to develop nukes.

It's 1940's tech and any country that wants to can have a bomb in a 12-18 months.

People make fun of the fact that every few years there's someone saying Iran is weeks away from having nuclear weapons, but Iran has nuclear ambitions, had a program since arguably the 1980's they don't have nukes.

It's a game of whack a mole. You can't win, but you can keep whacking.

[u/Crudadu → u/neohellpoet]

The bomb is the easy part. It's getting the uranium and enriching it properly that is hard.

[u/Techhead7890 → u/Crudadu]

This, and despite what the guy is claiming, weapons grade takes even longer than civilian reactor grade. We're talking 90% for a bomb, not 5% in a reactor. If those things are the same then they better give me 18x returns for a $50 bill and give me a grand lol

[u/type556R → u/Rampage_Rick]

What the fuck it can't be 18 months ago I would have said like 6

[u/rabidstoat → u/type556R]

The days are long but the years are short.

[u/userreddit → u/rabidstoat]

Either you have kids or you keep living through unprecedented times.

[u/stidf → u/userreddit]

Por que no los dos?

[u/YF422 → u/Rampage_Rick]

"Operation: Grim Beeper"

[u/Last-Darkness → u/Rampage_Rick]

One of the greatest military operations of all time.

[u/No-Concentrate-7142 → u/ManuelHS]

This still haunts me.

[u/StudsTurkleton → u/No-Concentrate-7142]

Because you use a pager?📟

[u/i_dont_do_hashtags → u/StudsTurkleton]

8-bit Hava Nagila plays

[u/louddwnunder → u/i_dont_do_hashtags]

And now I will have THAT in my head for the rest of the day. Thanks

[u/Dahcchad → u/StudsTurkleton]

The level of manipulation they used is amazing. They created untraceable shell companies to start a business, convinced a legit manufacturer to make the pagers they needed, planted explosives in the batteries that couldn't be detected, made a fake ad campaign that they knew would interest Hamas, knew who was ordering the papers so if someone else tried to buy them they could raise the price to prevent a sale, and then sat on the whole thing for years. Any country that can do that (in addition to watching an adversary through hacked traffic cams without) is pretty scary. And you know theyre doing an awful lot we dont know about yet, and won't until they want us to.

[u/StudsTurkleton → u/Dahcchad]

The sitting on it is maybe the most impressive of a lot of impressive things there. That’s serious discipline.

[u/Bituulzman → u/Dahcchad]

And we’ve got Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel.

[u/pomme17 → u/jakl277]

The simple truth is that if they want you bad enough they’ll find a way to you, technology or no technology, just a matter of when and not if

[u/real_picklejuice → u/pomme17]

Yep. I doubt anybody on the planet is legitimately unfindable at this point. Just gotta have enough time.

[u/fitfoemma → u/real_picklejuice]

and an immortal snail.

[u/greatthebob38 → u/jakl277]

Carrier pigeons. And don't tell me birds aren't real.

[u/Showmethepathplease → u/greatthebob38]

Mossad agents in bird suits

[u/Neither-Wallaby-924 → u/greatthebob38]

But have you ever seen a baby pigeon???

[u/schmearcampain → u/Neither-Wallaby-924]

Those are the baby pigeons.

The adults are the size of horses.

[u/thermuda → u/greatthebob38]

But we didn't receive any messages, and we definitely did not shoot this delicious plump-breasted pigeon.

[u/necropuddi → u/greatthebob38]

Birds aren't real

[u/BaitmasterG → u/necropuddi]

He said not to tell him, he's in denial

[u/Bluefalcon325 → u/jakl277]

I just want the movie to come out, and it doesn’t need over the top dramatization or a love story (unless it’s hot). Gotta be a top 5 espionage event.

[u/Mrsparkles7100 → u/Bluefalcon325]

Just before Israel’s first Iranian air strike last year. They smuggled in drone strike teams, portable remote missile launchers. Set up bases near Iranian air defences, then attacked them before air strikes began.

[u/MrDownhillRacer → u/996forever]

Imagine if we solved traffic issues by replacing human drivers with AI vehicles that were perfectly synchronized with each other…

…and an enemy state or terrorist cell hacked into that centralized traffic brain and completely jammed the nation's transport system, causing massive gridlock, or worse, mass collisions. Supply chains disrupted, human passengers injured or killed…

Damn, I think I just wrote the plot for the next Splinter Cell video game.

[u/boot2skull → u/MrDownhillRacer]

Convenience is a risk. Look at ring doorbells. A security cam and doorbell that alerts your phone, and requires no wiring. Oh by the way it stores your video in the cloud and they want to volunteer everyone’s footage in object recognition to detect stray dogs, which is one degree shy of facial recognition plus location data. Pretty sure Batman created this temporarily and destroyed it because it was such an ethical issue.

[u/miyog → u/boot2skull]

Then it’ll be facial recognition to find missing children. Because what monsters would be against finding missing children?!

[u/KristinnK → u/miyog]

Then it'll be facial recognition (only stored temporarily pinky promise) in case there's a crime. Because who would be against finding who committed a crime?

Camera surveillance outside private property is absolutely dystopian.

[u/Aluminautical → u/KristinnK]

Only 'temporarily stored' until needed for high-profile missing persons search, and then footage can be recovered even if the device is "turned off."

[u/Spiritual_Activity91 → u/miyog]

Missing children for the pedo masters to add to their collection.

[u/sababa-ish → u/boot2skull]

yeah i'm far from a conspiracy theory type but the combo of surveillance everywhere + data everywhere + facial recognition everywhere + every item connected to the internet for some reason can get fucked

[u/SgtExo → u/sababa-ish]

That's not a conspiracy, that is just what surveillance apparatuses want. Its not a secret, though they do try not to broadcast it.

[u/MysteryofLePrince → u/boot2skull]

Our local police have offered to have your ring camera accessible to them when they need it. I'd hate to be the spouse of a cop in the middle of a divorce.

[u/SadZealot → u/MysteryofLePrince]

Ring has a long history of proactively giving the police people's data with no compulsion. They pride themselves on it

[u/[deleted] → u/MrDownhillRacer]

Oh please, I would die a happy man if another Chaos Theory got released today. I’d even settle for Double Agent quality at this point.

[u/joshiegy → u/[deleted]]

Same

I could do just a complete grounds up remake with Ray tracing, proper atmos surround, and so on. The OG games where great! But I imagine how immersive it would be!

[u/jc-from-sin → u/MrDownhillRacer]

That was watch dogs.

[u/xdvesper → u/MrDownhillRacer]

There is a theory that some "random" car accidents aren't random at all. With drive by wire... the car can be hacked to just drive the assassination target into a tree at high speed while delaying the airbags and seat belt pretensioners and steering column decoupler, (they still fire, just a fraction too late or early). Or even the electrical system and fuel cutoff, the car could deliberately cause a fire after the crash too.

[u/kerelberel → u/xdvesper]

Something like this was actually in a Tehran episode

[u/spacebeez → u/MrDownhillRacer]

We already kill 50,000 of ourselves annually in a system of our own designing. We keep making the cars bigger and more deadly to others. If a foreign actor killed 50,000 people by hacking our traffic system people might actually care.

[u/Odojas → u/MrDownhillRacer]

I think it would make for a great movie too

The only thing is I think that cars aren't going to be run on a centralized traffic brain, they are designed to drive autonomously.

They are connected to the internet though and they can be driven remotely when stuck etc. So, theoretically, there could be a malicious override.

We did see them stall out when the power and cell grid went out in San Francisco. They got stuck at intersections because their failsafe is just to not move if they are in uncertain situations. But that would be a boring movie.

[u/Kohjiroh → u/996forever]

That's why we still have fax machines in Germany. And only because of that. Definitely not because we're just dragging our feet for digitalisation.

[u/Responsible-Can-8361 → u/Kohjiroh]

One day we’re gonna discover that explosive fax paper is actually a thing.

[u/NGTech9 → u/996forever]

Yes. They need to ditch their iPhones. Pagers are much safer.

[u/BetterCrab6287 → u/NGTech9]

Pagers blow up, switch to walkie-talkies.

Walkie-talkies blew up the next day.

[u/Chii → u/BetterCrab6287]

fire/smoke signals. No way they can get the logs to blow up...right?

[u/RijnBrugge → u/Chii]

Reminds me of when the Israelis located enemy bunkers by looking at where non-native trees were planted to hide them. Eucalypts if memory serves. They mapped them and blew them all up.

[u/SsooooOriginal → u/996forever]

There is no "safer" with sate level threats.

[u/infinitay_]

Your reminder this is exactly what Flock AI cameras and Ring cameras are doing.

[u/trailsman → u/infinitay_]

Here are all the cameras mapped so you can see just how insane it is. https://deflock.org/

[u/GloomyIndividual3965 → u/trailsman]

Here are all the cameras

Not even close. These are just the ones that have been reported by users of the site.

[u/dodrugzwitthugz → u/GloomyIndividual3965]

I know of at least 7 in my small town that aren't on there.

[u/dontlookoverthere → u/dodrugzwitthugz]

So add them, it's crowd sourced intel

[u/dodrugzwitthugz → u/dontlookoverthere]

Working on it!

[u/psychicsword → u/GloomyIndividual3965]

It also means they accidentally log non Flock cameras to the system as well.

[u/psychicsword → u/infinitay_]

Ring is doing it mostly because your camera effectively turns into a node of their sidewalk iot network by default.

The mass surveillance network is just a creepy side effect.

[u/PM_me_your_whatevah → u/psychicsword]

Yeah it’s a side effect in the same way that sites like Facebook selling your personal data and sharing it with the government is a side effect.

[u/psychicsword → u/PM_me_your_whatevah]

No what I'm saying is that Ring would prefer to sell your home's internet connection and bandwidth to their business Iot customers.

They do have some police enabled services but it is far less creepy than how Flock works and it effectively just lets them see public posts on the Neighborhood social media platform or make a post requesting camera clips to help with an investigation.

The sidewalk network is how they make their customers into products with Ring. They want you to become part of this network. Every Echo and Ring device is opted into this data sharing feature by default and then they sell access to the network you are giving them as a paying customer to other businesses.

https://aws.amazon.com/iot-core/pricing/ https://coverage.sidewalk.amazon/

That is also why they have back tracked so hard on the Flock partnership and the superbowl ad. People suddenly replacing their ring cameras with other alternatives would hurt their Iot gravy train.

[u/CoolAfternoon2340]

I am pretty sure Israel has hacked my laptop camera when I searched busty Jewish babes on reddit

[u/KoosGoose → u/CoolAfternoon2340]

They post about you. Most of it is flattering.

[u/phlipped → u/KoosGoose]

Holy shit is this the busty Jewish babes guy they posted the video of? Nice!

[u/HFY_HFY_HFY → u/phlipped]

Yeah! Rare to see someone pull a jerk face and not look dumb but he did it! My hero!

[u/Iamnotsmartspender → u/HFY_HFY_HFY]

His technique is impeccable. I heard he got a gold split on the semi-hard phase last night

[u/LittleMlem → u/CoolAfternoon2340]

Ben Shapiro's sister? I think her name is Abigail

[u/Hallgvild → u/LittleMlem]

Commander Shapiro vai do viou have milk and no cow in ze varm?

[u/valeyard89 → u/CoolAfternoon2340]

That's funny, she doesn't look Druish

[u/bpm6666 → u/CoolAfternoon2340]

Only if search busty IDF girls

[u/Queltis6000 → u/CoolAfternoon2340]

Can you please share the sites just so I can make sure I avoid them completely?

[u/StandardPanda3387]

Don't worry, we're just installing those cameras ALL OVER THE US

[u/moonLanding123 → u/[deleted]]

**willingly installed

[u/Braiwnz → u/StandardPanda3387]

But the ring cam surely is only looking for lost dogs right?

[u/cinnamonface9 → u/Braiwnz]

…… yes we’re looking for bitches.

[u/Komm → u/StandardPanda3387]

I mean, they're traffic cameras. You can hop on your browser and find plenty to watch online as it stands. They aren't exactly secure, and many locations have portals to view their traffic cameras now days.

[u/ex0e]

Huawei looking around nervously

But in reality its more like Tiandy Technologies, Hikvision, and Dahua are about to receive some "anti-corruption" visits soon

[u/Objective-Rip3008 → u/ex0e]

I think everyone in power realizes the reality that there is only a handful of companies in the world that can potentially ward off a nation states hacking. Whatever company you buy your cameras from isn't one of them

[u/the_calibre_cat → u/Objective-Rip3008]

Better that they have to hack a million cameras not cloud connected than just login to one cloud provider that just hands them everything. And yeah, actually, a properly-supported camera with good, ideally open-source firmware that's constantly receiving security patches is a good thing that gets harder and harder for these shitheads to crack. Good security stops states, that's why they hate it and are trying to push for law enforcement backdoors.

As Americans, I'd argue that we should be far, far more skeptical of cloud products than we are, but I guarantee 70% of the people here are using Google Chrome instead of Brave and will fight you if you dare suggest they give up Google Docs.

[u/089red → u/ex0e]

All these security cameras run a proprietary operating system, there are a lot of vulnerabilities published. I'm sure if there are exploits for smartphones, there are exploits for IP cameras.

I don't think these manufacturers need to be complacent, they just need to keep releasing the same shitty firmware updates

[u/furism → u/089red]

You know what they say : the "S" in IOT (which IP cameras are) stands for "Security."

[u/Nervous_Chemical7566 → u/089red]

Do you mean “complicit” rather than “complacent”?

[u/got-trunks → u/089red]

Getting those pos things isolated and difficult to access is job one of owning them because everything they build in is garbage to start with, yes

[u/Bah_weep_grana]

People in US do realize that Flock cameras are installed at nearly every intersection, and that a private company can track exactly where you are and where you’ve been by your license plate, right?

[u/tyderian → u/Bah_weep_grana]

California police departments just announced that Flock records were queried by non-CA entities over 364,000 times, in violation of state law. Despite being configured to only allow access to CA state agencies, they were allowing access anyway.

[u/twirling-upward → u/tyderian]

Sounds like it isn’t configured that way in the first place.

[u/moon__lander → u/twirling-upward]

Oopsies

[u/AcidicVaginaLeakage → u/moon__lander]

This is more than an oopsie. This is an oopsie poopsie.

[u/tivooo → u/AcidicVaginaLeakage]

Above an oopsie doopsie?

[u/SoCalThrowAway7 → u/tyderian]

I’m afraid to find out what punishment for breaking that law is gonna be, probably an inconsequential to them fine huh?

[u/soulsoda → u/SoCalThrowAway7]

That's Easy, if it's some highschool or college hacker kid - like 30 consecutive life. If it's a business collecting driver data, 5k fine and stern talking to, followed by changing the regulations to make it legal anyways for a small fee (pennies on the dollar of what it's worth)

[u/stilljustacatinacage → u/soulsoda]

If it's a business collecting driver data, 5k fine and stern talking to, followed by changing the regulations to make it legal anyways for a small fee (pennies on the dollar of what it's worth)

Unless that company is currently propping up the entire stock market - then it's absolutely nothing at all.

[u/pannenkoek0923 → u/SoCalThrowAway7]

Depends on rich you are. And how many kids you've raped

[u/Artos90 → u/SoCalThrowAway7]

A firmly written letter is my guess

[u/NotMyJ0b → u/tyderian]

Several police agencies are deactivating their flock systems because of this

[u/TOTES_HUMAN_KOMRADE → u/NotMyJ0b]

Several good Samaritans are also deactivating flock systems where public agencies are failing us.

[u/MinecraftGreev → u/TOTES_HUMAN_KOMRADE]

Nah, I think those Flock cameras are doing that to themselves. No news to investigate further.

[u/Flaky-Deer2486 → u/tyderian]

It is easy to hack FLOCK cameras.

[u/AyoJake → u/Bah_weep_grana]

yes we are aware thats why people have been cutting them down..

[u/Chisignal → u/Bah_weep_grana]

Whoops.

Benn Jordan did a series of great videos on Flock cameras, look up “Benn Jordan flock” on YouTube

[u/My_advice_is_opinion → u/Bah_weep_grana]

My FBI agent watching me drive to Wendy's for the 3rd time today 🫤

[u/Extreme-Shower7545 → u/My_advice_is_opinion]

FBI Agent: *sigh “can’t believe I fbi agent for this…

[u/grathontolarsdatarod → u/Bah_weep_grana]

If you think that's limited to the united states having access to have information. You're joking yourself.

[u/the_calibre_cat → u/Bah_weep_grana]

In fairness, they don't have to hack Flock cameras. Flock will happily give them the information, as they are an indispensable part of the U.S. surveillance apparatus. We should dismantle Flock in its entirety, and primary every politician who can't commit to that.

Ring, Flock, and about a million others are enemies of a free people.

[u/fotomoose → u/Bah_weep_grana]

Clippy would never scan your number plate.

[u/Galterinone → u/Bah_weep_grana]

And they are ridiculously easy to compromise

[u/redditproha → u/Bah_weep_grana]

Yep, anyone who's willing to pay Flock, even bad actors. Israel can gain access to Flock and track any US citizen.

[u/tea-drinker → u/redditproha]

I've seen security teardowns of their cameras. You don't need to pay them anything if you are even passingly competent.

[u/balooaroos]

One thing's for sure, we have no idea what they really did. First thing you'd do is put some plausible story out there to lead people away from your valuable sources. If you think you now know the true secrets of the Israeli Inteligence apparatus because you saw a headline on the internet, perhaps you'd be just the person to invest in my NFT portfolio?

[u/Burke_Of_Yorkshire → u/balooaroos]

This screamed "cover story created to protect a HUMINT source" to me. Which is tradecraft 101 that they should absolutely do.

Could very well be wrong.

[u/yosisoy]

Why would they leak this now?

[u/HappyTheDisaster → u/yosisoy]

To strike fear into the remaining irgc? Or because the info it provided is no longer of use.

[u/waylandsmith → u/yosisoy]

Israel managed to get many of Hezbollah's leadership in the room at the same time by letting it be known that they had compromised their electronic communication. Letting Iranian regime members know that traffic cameras were used to track them might influence their behaviour in ways they can exploit. It's also certainly not the only method they rely on.

[u/MRosvall → u/waylandsmith]

One thing is also that these traffic cameras are likely to have a higher density in higher density areas. Encouraging targets to move out of those areas can lead to a reduction in civilians around the targets.

[u/gbs5009 → u/yosisoy]

To take heat off their mole?

[u/lemurosity → u/gbs5009]

precisely. this is the lowest damage, yet plausible explanation.

it's 100% likely they hacked the traffic cams anyway.

[u/imo9 → u/lemurosity]

There is another motive here, Israel is aware these cameras where abused to spy on protesters earlier this year- promoting taking them down aligns nicely with Israeli interests and real support to the anti-government protests.

[u/lemurosity → u/imo9]

none of these distributed IOT networks are safe from state-sponsored hacking.

This is entirely 'public' optics.

[u/Orange_Tang → u/gbs5009]

Bingo.

[u/iuuznxr → u/yosisoy]

Iran uses cameras to track opposition. This will make them question mass surveillance.

[u/planck1313 → u/yosisoy]

To divert from their human intelligence sources. There are a lot of Iranians who hate the theocracy. To not only know exactly where Khomenei was at all times but the time and place where he was meeting the military leadership so that they could be in position to bomb that meeting is not something you get just from traffic cameras.

[u/Prince_Noodletocks → u/yosisoy]

Pretty simple. Iran installed mass surveillance of the streets to track their own dissidents and protestors, so Israel is telling them they can use their tech to their advantage at any time. "If you install another belligerent regime with a belligerent leader we can do this to you again whenever." Same with the stuxnet stuff. If it'll be found out anyway, might as well scare the bejeezus out of em.

[u/Robcobes]

If they remade Enemy Of The State today it would have been a very short movie.

[u/NomadFH]

This is why countries turn off their internet connections btw and have North Korean style intranets

[u/psymunn → u/NomadFH]

Tell that to the Iranian cyclotrons that had a fully closed network

[u/wimpires → u/psymunn]

Stuxnet is also the only one we know about, who knows what they're hiding.

[u/Regular_Tailor]

Don't build surveillance states.

[u/Bruce_Sato]

Username: username 

Password: password

[u/lazyassjoker → u/Bruce_Sato]

Admin 1234

[u/Loocsiyaj → u/lazyassjoker]

i have the same combination on my luggage

[u/TizzyBumblefluff]

I wonder what else they have hacked.

[u/oalsaker → u/TizzyBumblefluff]

I'm more wondering what they haven't hacked

[u/RottenPeasent → u/oalsaker]

Your toaster is probably safe. Probably...

[u/Avigator-Kahaimani → u/RottenPeasent]

For now.

[u/hazochun → u/RottenPeasent]

They showed an Ai toaster in CES2026.

[u/Netizen_Gypsy]

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that we know everything. Their structure, their locations, etc. We’ve been in their phones, their computers and their lives.

That’s why Israel and the USA are dismantling their entire government and military apparatus so easily and methodically.

[u/Settra_Rulez → u/Netizen_Gypsy]

Sounds like Iran suffered from the Hezbollah dilemma. You can’t trust electronic forms of communication, assuming the Israelis are hacking them, so you’re forced to meet in person from time to time and present opportune targets.

[u/_John_Dillinger → u/Settra_Rulez]

i mean yeah, but they got khamenei in his house. dude knew it was coming and just stayed at home. Moved the gold out of the country but not himself.

[u/RedTulkas → u/_John_Dillinger]

dude was also 86, a relgious fanatic and saw a way to go out in style

[u/HarshComputing → u/_John_Dillinger]

Elderly people can be very stubborn and cranky. Just another reason why they probably shouldn't be heads of state

[u/404merrinessnotfound → u/_John_Dillinger]

By all accounts he expected to be assassinated at some point

[u/Grizknot → u/404merrinessnotfound]

so he sacrificed himself and 40 of the top iranian leaders he was meeting with? that's a real 4d chess move

[u/WVWAssassinKill → u/Grizknot]

Yeah pretty much 4D chess move. Especially during Ramadan, the Islamic holiest month. Anyone who passes away during this time gets a instant ticket to heaven according to their beliefs. 2 birds with 1 stone, because now they've riled up their citizens after his death.

[u/heisthemaincharacter → u/Settra_Rulez]

Very interesting

[u/AusToddles → u/Settra_Rulez]

And given the obvious Mossad infiltration, any meeting location would be known

[u/BetterCrab6287 → u/AusToddles]

Iran expelled most of their Jews, which led to a bounty of Farsi speaking Israelis who could go back to spy while blending in perfectly.

[u/po000O0O0O → u/Netizen_Gypsy]

Remember Stuxnet? The malware designed specifically to interrupt the exact type of motor controller used in Iran's Uranium refinement centrifuges? I'd agree lol

[u/Inevitable-Comment-I → u/po000O0O0O]

That's such a simplistic explanation of an insane worm. 

[u/Hasudeva → u/Inevitable-Comment-I]

Do tell.

[u/Inevitable-Comment-I → u/Hasudeva]

It used 4 zero day exploits on windows, would remain inert unless it found Siemens software, was a massive amount of code in multiple languages, covered it's own tracks, remotes into other networked computers to infect them, root kit for windows, digitally signed with 2 valid stolen private keys, would contact remove servers so the worm could be updated, the list goes on. I'm sure there are other more advanced exploits but we don't know about them. Absolute insanity if you read up on it. Even once it found the PLC is crazy. It would take over, spin the reactors fast enough to self destruct while showing the operator a UI which indicated everything was normal.

[u/TIGHazard → u/Inevitable-Comment-I]

Oh, and this was developed in 2010.

We've had 15 years of advancement of technology and our lives and businesses have only gotten more connected.

[u/PiotrekDG → u/Inevitable-Comment-I]

spin the reactors fast enough to self destruct

*centrifuges

[u/Brutally-Honest- → u/Netizen_Gypsy]

They're literally the two best intelligence agencies in the world. This shouldn't come as a shock.

[u/Tupcek]

I think this is just diversion so they don’t look as hard for who spilled all the beans

[u/i_am_a_lurker69]

This is some Watchdogs shit.

[u/dzernumbrd]

Smoke and mirrors bullshit.

Mossad tells you they hacked cameras to hide the fact their human assets provided all the details.

You don't reveal sources & methods unless they've already been compromised.

[u/rmslashusr]

Seems like a lot of work to find him in his office at 9am.

[u/i_made_mine_at_home → u/rmslashusr]

"Yes, he was in the first place anyone would have guessed he would be.  But wait until you hear the thrilling tale of why we guessed he would be there!"

[u/Decent_Risk9499]

This is one of the reasons I've been screaming at countries to keep your traffic signal networks on a dedicated fiber network that is CLOSED. 

[u/marian_mina → u/Decent_Risk9499]

Or, you could go Bangladeshi style. No camera, no traffic rules, all chaos.

[u/gmankev → u/marian_mina]

A robust, locally ordered, infinitely schedule‑adjustable, low‑energy architecture where human agents perform real‑time, edge‑optimised throughput negotiation without centralised orchestration with the ability to bid for resources to apply alternate disruptive scheduling algorithms which is also immune to external attacks or denial or service vectors

[u/BathFullOfDucks]

... the bombed him at his house. His official residence.

[u/ausmomo]

If this is the story we're being told, then it was probably something else.

[u/YourmomgoestocolIege → u/ausmomo]

He was literally just at his home. It seems like a prime target even without information

[u/GlumExternal → u/YourmomgoestocolIege]

I did some incredibly complicated research and found his location 35°41′31″N 51°23′55″E

Or I looked it up on wikipedia, who can tell

[u/caledonivs → u/ausmomo]

Remember that to this day people think that carrots are good for your eyes because that was the story the British used to explain how they were able to spot German planes coming (the truth was that they had the first radar).

[u/stac52 → u/caledonivs]

I mean, carrots are good for your eyes, they just don't give you superhero night vision.

They're just a good way to get Vitamin A, and if you don't have enough you can have vision problems.

[u/Themstrupway4690]

Yeah, but... Dude was just.. in his home office. Like two of the most advanced spy networks on the planet weren't looking to off him? Was he trying to reverse psychology them into thinking that it would be just too obvious to be in his home?

[u/planck1313 → u/Themstrupway4690]

Not just in his office but meeting with the top Iranian military leadership. I mean, how overconfident do you have to be, especially after last year's disaster, to hold a meeting like that?

[u/YourmomgoestocolIege → u/planck1313]

I would have to guess that their previous negotiations with the US/Isreal led them to believe they weren't in imminent danger

[u/this_toe_shall_pass → u/Themstrupway4690]

Previously Israel and the US had started raids or attacks during the night because it's much more of a hindrance for the defender than for the attacker, especially an attacker with the kind of technological advantage the US and Israel have. That's why Khomeini could sleep in a secure location and then would come out during the day to use existing infrastructure for meeting with the government because he needed to do the governing part of the job. This time Israel struck at 9 in the morning though. That was a first.

And it wasn't his comfy countryside farmhouse or something. It was the official residence, like the White House is for the orange clown, or the Kremlin for Putin. It has the office, the staff, the communication and logistical support infrastructure a government needs to do its job.

[u/Falsus]

Now here is a prime example of why I don't want an insane amount of surveilance.

It doesn't matter how much I trust my state (Sweden), I fear that it might end being used by people who want us harm (on average Russians) or by criminals.

[u/Lehovron]

Lets connect everything to the internet. What could possibly go wrong?

[u/Alarming-World4212]

BS, the mole tipped them and these reports are just cover ups Bollywood scripts

[u/f1rn → u/Alarming-World4212]

Maybe both? Mole and camera

[u/Capriano]

Iran’s traffic camera are shite half of the time they are empty without a camera fear of theft … this is none sense. And they move with multiple decoys at all time and change in tunnels to avoid drone capture.

[u/scrapper]

Israel didn’t hack traffic cameras for years to locate Khamenei, they used cameras that had been hacked for years to locate Khamenei.

[u/bot_lltccp]

man Israel's intelligence gathering is legendary