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Thank god Israel makes apps, I was thinking they were a repugnant settler-colonial state doing crimes against humanity under the watchful gaze of people like Ro Khanna. But no. They have apps.
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Thank god Israel makes apps, I was thinking they were a repugnant settler-colonial state doing crimes against humanity under the watchful gaze of people like Ro Khanna. But no. They have apps.
One of those Unit 8200 alumni founded Waze, which is basically Google Maps now - that thing everyone constantly had running on their phone, which they take everywhere they go.
It’s not the specific product that’s a problem in buyouts like Waze. Intelligence agencies work off of influence. When waze gets bought by Google, the threat isn’t some sneaky aspect of waze’s code base. Google wouldn’t allow that. The problem is suddenly a bunch of Waze people end up in positions of power and have huge influence over what technology capital should create in the future and which groups the institution will be friendly towards and what groups of people get hired and promoted in the institution of power.
All bets are off for some SaaS services. They have a lot of black boxes.