The use of Chinese brand Huawei’s smartphones by Hamas militants and leaders cannot be the reason for the poor performance of Israeli intelligence in its invasion of the country last weekend. Igor Bederov, head of the information and analytical research department of T.Hunter, told socialbites.ca about this and commented on one of the theories regarding the reasons for the failure of Israeli intelligence before the Palestinian attack.
The version in which the Hamas attack achieved great success thanks to the use of Huawei technology, which is difficult to hack and eavesdrop due to the lack of pre-installed programs of American IT companies. put forward former MI6 intelligence agent Amen Dean. According to Bederov, Israeli cyber intelligence is unlikely to have major problems with the “eavesdropping” of Huawei devices, because in essence smartphones of this brand are ordinary Android devices, and the special services have different approaches to espionage.
“I don’t think the problem of Israeli intelligence failure is solely related to Huawei equipment. “The special services of this country have all kinds of spy programs that can be easily applied to both iOS and Android devices (which are Huawei smartphones) of suspicious people when necessary,” the expert said.
Moreover, he added that intelligence is not based solely on smartphone surveillance. Intelligence services permanently collect and analyze not only non-public information, but also public information (messages and posts of people in instant messengers and social networks).
“Intelligence especially closely monitors key figures of a particular force. “This is done by so-called control departments,” he added.
According to Bederov, terrorists are actually trying to use devices with “naked” operating systems in which the services of American IT companies are not pre-installed. However, militants do not limit themselves to simply clearing the operating system of potentially eavesdropping software and carry out in-depth modifications of smartphones to transmit classified information. The expert added that in this case, it does not matter which brand the smartphone is in terms of intelligence.
Before preparing for the Hams attack, read more about the possible reasons for the failure of Israeli intelligence – material “socialbites.ca”.