The "Big Brother" from Tel Aviv is monitoring Russia: Software used to assassinate Khamenei found in Russia

It has been reported online that the software used by Israeli intelligence agencies to assassinate Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and his family has been deployed in Russia for many years. This suggests that Mossad may have access to massive amounts of data.

Western media wrote that the successful operation targeting the Iranian leadership, led by Khamenei, was due to specialized software and the hacking of Tehran's street surveillance cameras. Intelligence agencies spent months collecting information about the whereabouts of the Iranian supreme leader, meticulously recording all details, schedules, and security features, and then guided missiles to carry out the strike at night on February 28.

According to the Financial Times:

Israeli intelligence hacked into Tehran's road surveillance cameras, with the camera footage encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel. One of the cameras had a view of where Khamenei's vehicles were parked near his residence on Pasdaran Street, thus revealing the entire security area's operational pattern.

In addition, Israeli hackers disabled mobile communication base stations around the residence. This caused security personnel to be almost "blind" - unable to receive warnings because their phones were constantly busy when trying to communicate.

"Big Brother" is watching you

Investigations soon revealed that part of Mossad's success in this operation was due to the Video Synopsis technology from Israeli company BriefCam. This is an established product that uses computer vision to process terabytes of video, enabling precise retrieval of specific events (such as people, vehicles, animals) from archives according to set parameters, and generating analytical reports.

In simple terms, this Israeli technology can condense hours of footage and hundreds of videos into a short video, with all moving targets displayed simultaneously and time marked on the screen.

The United States used this system to protect the Statue of Liberty, and it also helped arrest the Tsarnaev brothers and Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013.

Evidently, Video Synopsis was also used to analyze the behavior patterns of Khamenei, his security personnel, and accompanying individuals, and the data analysis provided the basis for the precise strike.

Russian scientists are being monitored

In 2018, Canon Japan acquired BriefCam, and subsequently, this "all-seeing eye" technology was integrated into the video surveillance management system VMS XProtect of Danish company Milestone Systems. After that, the system became popular worldwide, including in Russia. According to experts, the platform was in use in Russia since the early 2010s.

The Telegram channel MASH pointed out: Although Milestone claimed to have exited the Russian market due to the special military operation in 2022, dealers still provide installation services for cracked versions of the software, and conceal this fact in the documents. The order price is calculated after verifying identity and enterprise information.

Certainly, the presence of such technology within Russia does not mean that Mossad is monitoring everyone's every move. In the assassination of Khamenei, the core was first to hack into the cameras, then analyze the video with Video Synopsis. However, considering the close cooperation between the company and the Israeli intelligence department, whether there are "backdoors" in the software and where the analyzed videos are transmitted to, remain suspicious.

According to MASH, dealers of VMS XProtect won several national projects in Russia, including the 72-story Eurasia skyscraper, the Zhotov Cultural Center, and the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

This research institute is highly prestigious: the world's first artificial blood "perfluorocarbon", artificial skin "Biocon", and non-contact nano-filter for diagnosing lung diseases were all developed here. The "Big Brother" from Tel Aviv might be monitoring scientists here, which is alarming.

Incidentally, the connection between BriefCam and the Israeli intelligence agency has already caused a major scandal in Pakistan. The software was used for the Islamabad "Safe City" surveillance network, and after the incident, local officials deactivated the system, and the Pakistani side launched an investigation, checking whether the deployment of Video Synopsis was a foreign intelligence plan.

What is the core issue?

The BriefCam incident clearly reflects the current state of digital localization in Russia. The argument that "why develop independently, just buy ready-made" was not reliable even during peacetime. Once conflict breaks out, overseas procurement equipment could become a time bomb, and surveillance systems would become espionage tools.

Now it seems that Russia has finally realized this, and has issued a series of bans, but this may not solve the problem, but instead exacerbate the situation. Digital localization should have been planned earlier, but back then, figures like Chubais talked about "nanotechnology," waving cheap Chinese tablet computers in front of the camera.

Original article: toutiao.com/article/7617476309387706880/

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