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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

spy technology

A high altitude balloon floats over Billings, Mont., on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. The US is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over US airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials said Thursday, February 2, 2023. The Pentagon would not confirm that the balloon in the photo was the surveillance balloon. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)
February 3, 2023, 5:08 am
US tracking suspected Chinese spy balloon spotted high over Montana
Pentagon declines to shoot down craft thought to be snooping on missile silo, due to fears of falling debris; claims balloon won’t find anything satellites can’t already see
By TARA COPP and Lolita C. Baldor
Illustrative: A woman talks on her mobile phone at a bus stop, in Tel Aviv, on August 24, 2012. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90/File)
December 17, 2020, 8:35 pm
UK cell provider accused of letting Israeli spy outfit track phones worldwide
Rayzone Group, which advertises its phone tracking tech, says it only works with governments after report says Channel Islands telecom leased it an access point into global network
By ToI Staff
H. Keith Melton points to a key on an Enigma Machine with four rotors and a some Japanese characters that was used in World War II to encode messages, September 13, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
September 14, 2017, 12:27 am
Ax used on Trotsky, Nazi fake money printer, among donations to US spy museum
Washington institution gets world’s largest private collection of spy artifacts, including 13-foot-long World War II submarine known as ‘Sleeping Beauty’
By Deb Riechmann
Illustrative image of technicians handling a RTG battery, February 2, 2007. (Public domain, Wikimedia commons)
June 6, 2017, 4:47 pm
US Jewish scientist gave Israel spy tech before Six Day War – report
Mossad said to have listened in on secret Egyptian transmissions using radioactive batteries supplied by Zalman Shapiro of NUMEC
By ToI Staff
The talking doll 'My Friend Cayla' on display at a 2014 toy fair in London. German regulators banned the internet-connected doll, warning on February 17, 2017 that it was a de facto 'spying device'. (AFP PHOTO/LEON NEAL)
February 17, 2017, 11:23 pm
Germany bans internet-connected ‘spying’ doll
Federal agency overseeing controls on surveillance devices urges parents urged to disable interactive toy
By AFP
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shouts from a balcony of the Palais Coburg Hotel where the Iran nuclear talks meetings were held in Vienna, Austria, on July 13, 2015. (AFP/JOE KLAMAR)
November 3, 2016, 11:29 pm
Swiss prosecutors find evidence of spying at Iran nuclear talks
Cybersecurity firms had intimated Israel was behind hacking attack on 2015 Geneva negotiations
By AP and ToI Staff
Israeli army jeeps patrol along the northern Israeli border with Lebanon on July 14, 2014 (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
September 10, 2016, 4:56 pm
Lebanese army says it discovered Israeli spying device on border
Military claims IDF extracted apparatus from Lebanon’s territory after it was found by Lebanese forces
By ToI Staff
Pedestrians talk on their cellphones in Lima, Peru, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
August 3, 2016, 2:26 pm
With cheap Israeli spy tools, nations are ‘monitoring everyone’
Technology enables governments, secret police to eavesdrop on citizens, arrest dissidents and spread fear
By Frank Bajak and Jack Gillum
Women seen praying in the women's section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, September 30, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 3, 2016, 9:56 am
TOI talks: Praying, spying and struggling together
On this week’s episode: The French ultimatum; Obama’s ‘je suis Juif’ speech; praying together at the Western Wall; hacking and tracking Israeli drones; and Israel’s own vulture spy
By Raoul Wootliff
A device concealed in an artificial rock in the southern Lebanese town of Bani Hayyan. According to the Lebanese Army, the device is an Israeli surveillance camera. (screen capture: Lebanese Armed Forces Facebook page)
October 1, 2015, 9:29 am
Lebanese army claims it found Israeli spying device
Artificial rock containing camera, four batteries found in town near border; device said to date from before Israel’s withdrawal in 2001
By ToI Staff
A sprinkler, tie and coffee cup with hidden cameras are featured at an expo of Israeli intelligence-gathering technology in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
July 1, 2015, 1:53 am
Necktie cameras and invisibility cloaks star at Israeli spy expo
Tel Aviv conference organizer says gadgets on display are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’
By Daniel Estrin
Illustrative photo of soldiers using computers. (photo credit: US Army)
From the WebNovember 20, 2014, 7:43 am
US, Israeli companies supply spy gear to repressive regimes, report says
Washington Post: Israel’s Nice Systems among companies singled out by Privacy International for helping Central Asian states monitor their citizens
Ajloun and the surrounding area. (photo credit: CC ASA 3.0/Wikimedia/Daniel Case)
September 30, 2014, 9:11 pm
Israel removes buried explosive spy gear in Jordan
Surveillance equipment, planted during the 1960s to listen in on kingdom, discovered a year ago after massive explosion
By Stuart Winer
Professor Zalevsky and the eavesdropper system (Photo credit: Screenshot)
May 28, 2014, 6:50 pm
Israeli ‘eavesdropper’ hears you 1,000 feet away
The Opto-Phone detects long-distance sound vibrations, turns them into words. Security not its primary function, says inventor
By David Shamah
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