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The Secret Wars of Unit 8200 and U.S. Cyber Command
https://paranoidechochamber.com/unit-8200/
Israel’s Unit 8200 may be small but pushes others around like the diminutive younger brother of a giant- picking fights it would not pick without the security of knowing that the giant has it’s back. Sources in the US government have pointed to Israeli aggression as an unnecessary nuisance that compromises U.S. safety – particularly their aggressive Military Intelligence unit known simply as Unit 8200. What you may not know about the brash, bold and aggressive Unit 8200 is that they are equally responsible for creating tools of destruction as they are for the cool new outfit your new style app picked out for you.
Unit 8200 was able to repurpose the algorithms used to track and prevent suicide bombings to produce Stylit – an app for choosing clothes, and Waze the popular ‘alternative route’ driving app. However Unit 8200 is hardly just a bunch of stylish Israelis helping you be a snappy dresser or get to work on time – they may be responsible for dragging America into global conflict.
In 2010 a cyber security firm known as Symantec discovered a virus that had almost 15,000 lines of code, no bugs and utilized four zero day exploits. The programming time and skill including undiscovered zero day exploits in the virus were appraised by Symantec to be worth over a million USD. A “million dollar virus” copying and spreading all over the world is a far cry from the usual bug laden viruses from the usual suspects of Chinese or Russian teenagers.
Symantec dubbed the super virus “STUXNET” based on the combination of two words STUB and XNET, but is referred to as Operation Olympic Games amongst the US Cyber Command & NSA. Stuxnet was never intended to become the global phenomenon that it did, but largely due to Unit 8200’s aggressive short-sighted alterations it spread wider and further than ever initially intended.
U.S. Cyber Command is the US Government’s digital warfare department and is the aggressive arm of the NSA, and happens to operate out of the same building as the NSA. U.S. Cyber Command has specific targets and goals that could be compromised, unlike the NSA whose job is to vacuum and index all information. The public may not very familiar with Cyber Command for a variety of reasons: nearly all of it’s activities are top secret, they have no practical oversight for their operations and there currently is no pressing enough reason for the public to know about them.
Most rational citizens understand the need for classified information for ongoing military operations, at least to a limit. U.S. Cyber Command does not need to have their missions and operations blown due to public oversight. From a military perspective, the U.S. Cyber Command operates most best out of the public eye as they originally intended Stuxnet to be.