One afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief’s agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company’s cloud.

Meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm turned hi-tech campus, the spymaster, Yossi Sariel, won Nadella’s support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customised and segregated area within Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.

Armed with Azure’s near-limitless storage capacity, Unit 8200 began building a powerful new mass surveillance tool: a sweeping and intrusive system that collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Revealed here for the first time in an investigation by the Guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the cloud-based system – which first became operational in 2022 – enables Unit 8200 to store a giant trove of calls daily for extended periods of time.

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[–] 26 points 1 year ago

Oh look. Genocide enabling for profit.

Grease the world's wheels with child blood. War is a racket.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Time to cancel those Microsoft subscriptions.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This includes feeding their AI by pushing to github btw.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Absolutely.

    Here are some alternatives to Murdersoft’s most popular blood-soaked products:

    • Windows → Fedora KDE Plasma Linux
    • MS Office → LibreOffice
    • Github → Codeberg
    • VS Code → VS Codium
    • Bing → DuckDuckGo
    • LinkedIn → You don’t need a social network for wage slavery
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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    This isn't the first time that US tech companies have supplied the technology to enable genocide. IBM famously supplied the Nazis with the punchcard technology which allowed census data to be processed at scale in order to locate Jews and Romani.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

    Microsoft Azure has enabled massive surveillance of an entire population, enabling war crimes and the killing of civilians.

    They'll probably face zero consequences.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Isn’t this what AT&T is for?

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    However, Unit 8200 sources said intelligence drawn from the enormous repositories of phone calls held in Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza.

    Microsoft is directly profitting off of the Genocide of Palestinians.

    Directly and KNOWINGLY profitting off of genocide.

    Truly listen to those words and let them sink in. This is evil and we must hold those like this man Satya Narayana Nadella accountable for witnessing a genocide of tens of thousands, likely hundreds of thousands, and participating enthusiastically.

    We will not forget.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Boycott Microsoft.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    And it's flagged! HN is a techno-fascist safe space...

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