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JumpCrisscross • today at 8:23 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> why is Israel so good at this?

Unit 8200 [1]. Also, Israel doesn't extradite its own citizens and seems to turn a blind eye to criminals doing nonsense abroad. (Similar to Russia and China.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200


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halJordan • today at 10:23 PM

That unit is a symptom of their prodigious skill not the cause. Israelis are good at cyber for the same reason the US is good, and the same reason Russia is good. They have an outsized tech industry.

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