I'm confused what this really means. Countries don't store their really secret things in Azure. So what do we think the source of this surveillance was?

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bhouston 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I'm confused what this really means. Countries don't store their really secret things in Azure. So what do we think the source of this surveillance was?

Why wouldn't countries store secret data in Azure, Google Cloud and AWS services? I think that this is quite common.

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everdrive 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I think you're misunderstanding my question. I'm not saying "this story is bogus," but rather I'm saying that this sort of data is probably not the kind of data which is acquired through really secret means. Perhaps it was purchased from providers, or some other less-secret method.

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bhouston 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Israel actually had a bunch of rules where Palestinians are not allowed to have 5G or 4G networks to ensure that they can be monitored.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/israeli-restri...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_Palestine

And yes it is recording pretty much all calls in Palestine:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-isra...

	▲	everdrive 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I really had no idea, thanks for the links.

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derektank 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, they do

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-government-top-...

	▲	everdrive an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm clearly not informed and equally surprised. Thanks for letting me know.