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Richard Silverstein
Personal blog · richardsilverstein.compoliticssecurity
Richard Silverstein writes Tikun Olam תיקון עולם, a personal blog at richardsilverstein.com about politics and security. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Richard Silverstein's blog for reporting on Israeli surveillance and cyber operations, including Israel's role in Unit 8200 alumni, the Flame malware and Pegasus hacking.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Breaking news on the Israeli national security state
Most-linked posts?
- /tikun_olam/2012/05/28/flame-israels-new-contribution-to-middle-east-cyberwar/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-08
What Hacker News says?
8200 has many alumni including many security products, including those protesting about the treatment of Palestinians This is despite being members of the IDF https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/09/12/israels-nsa-st...
Comment linking /2014/09/12/israels-nsa-staff-refuse-to-fight-palestinians/
on “NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts”Submitted Israeli Cyberwar Veterans Developed NSA Snooping Technology as a story · 5 points
HN discussion“Israel is the 6th - unofficial and undeclared - member of 5 eyes” https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/02/09/nsa-maintains-...
Comment linking /2014/02/09/nsa-maintains-satellite-facility-in-israel/
on “Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes”> I'm pretty sure that there are PA citizens learning in israeli universities though, especially Ariel. Ariel is probably the worst example you could have chosen. Palestinian residents of the West Bank are not allowed to enter the settlement of Ariel that Ariel University is in, so that seems unlikely. I'm pretty sure there are zero PA citizens enrolled at Ariel. I would not be surprised if there are zero PA citizen…
Comment linking /2009/05/28/banning-palestinian-students-from-israeli-universities/
on “Mentoring in Gaza's first hackathon”Presumably it is purging machine specific (targeted) configuration, code updates, and spooled data too, i.e. not just the virus code. Knowing specfically what the virus was looking for, which machines were infected, and what data was snarfed is of critical importance to the targets. Purging makes the targets job of forensics much much harder. Edit: flame code is not monolithic - forensics would be very interested in…
Comment linking /tikun_olam/2012/05/28/flame-israels-new-contribution-to-middle-east-cyberwar/
on “Flame Malware Makers Send 'Suicide' Code”Well, it could have been funded by Martians :) But the main suspect right now is Israel, not the US. This guy clearly has an agenda, but claims "My major scoop is that my senior Israeli source confirms that it is a product of Israeli cyberwarfare experts." http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2012/05/28/flam...
Comment linking /tikun_olam/2012/05/28/flame-israels-new-contribution-to-middle-east-cyberwar/
on “Flame Malware Makers Send 'Suicide' Code”http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2011/03/03/mossad-kidnaps-... This happened just two years ago. Palestinian engineer, traveling in Ukraine, was captured by unknown people, and was found in Israel prison week later.
Comment linking /2011/03/03/mossad-kidnaps-gazan-engineer-in-ukraine-now-held-incommunicado-in-israeli-prison/
on “Ecuador has received asylum request from NSA leaker Snowden”
