Israel's secret intel unit spawns high-tech tycoons

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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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