Israel Spent Years Hacking Tehran Traffic Cameras to Track Khamenei (thedefensepost.com)

Good think Flock has such strong E2E encryption and internal controls on who can access camera data.

How much of that is true, and how much of that is to cover and protect the actual humans on the ground feeding most of the intelligence?

I doubt they'd let their secret leak so soon into the conflict if it was even half as useful as the articles I read claim. Now on the other hand, if I wanted the Iranian counterintelligence to waste time investigating and even taking the cameras offline ...

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Good thing Isreal is our greatest ally. If they were our enemy they'd be doing this to Americans

These types of cameras are quite useful to authoritarian regimes for tracking dissidents and tracking protests.

So it's possible the release of this knowledge could be a ploy to encourage the Iranians to shut them down.

Anyone remembers stuxnet? Apparently part of a US and Israel joint operation called Olympic Games [1].

In the documentary Zero Days some anonymous source mentions there was another project within Olympic Games called Nitro Zeus[2]. This was a complete takeover of Iran's infrastructure.

I wonder if these hacks we're seeing are the remains of Nitro Zeus.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro_Zeus

Was mass surveillance even necessary? He was sitting in his home compound in central Tehran with his grandchildren. He wasn't hiding and had resigned himself to martyrdom.

And yet they can't produce a single video of the "30,000 protesters killed by Iran".