http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2013/09/09/Israels-secret-intel-unit-spawns-high-tech-tycoons/UPI-88481378741900/
Sept. 9, 2013
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The Israeli military's top-secret Unit
8200, the Jewish state's equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency,
has spawned a generation of high-tech start-ups and more technology
millionaires than many business schools, and these days the cyber security
sector is booming.
Unit 8200 is now the Israeli military's biggest branch in manpower terms.
It has grown swiftly in recent years as cyberwarfare has become one of the
major security threats to military organizations and industrialized states
whose vital infrastructure is vulnerable to cyberattack.
But Unit 8200 remains the most secretive of Israel's military units. Even
the name of its commander is a state secret, as is its annual budget .
It has a major, highly secure base in the Negev Desert south of Tel Aviv.
But little is known about its work in what's known as signals
intelligence, intercepting and analyzing other forces' communications and
data traffic from mobile phones chatter and emails to flight paths and
electronic signals.
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