Jake Williams

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Reportedly, cyber operations were instrumental in enabling - but not executing - the Israeli strike that killed Ayatollah Khamenei on Saturday. The killing itself was kinetic: ~30 Sparrow precision missiles fired by jets from over 1,000 km away, each capable of hitting a dining-table-sized target. The cyber layer was preparation. Unit 8200 had hacked nearly all of Tehran's traffic cameras years prior, routing them to servers in Tel Aviv. Algorithms built dossiers on Khamenei's bodyguards - addresses, shift patterns, commute routes, who they were assigned to protect - constructing a "pattern of life." Israel could also selectively disrupt mobile phone towers near the compound, making phones appear busy and cutting off warnings to the protection detail.

France, Germany and the UK have issued a statement condemning Iran's "disproportionate" response. I want to know what they think is a "proportionate" response when invaders assassinate your head of state and civilian leaders in an explicit campaign to destroy your government.

For U.S. audience: Iran is larger than Texas, California, New Mexico, and Florida combined. It also has a larger population than those states together.

The administration is getting US service members killed over the fucking Epstein files. I am livid. I hope to live to see Hegseth and every other member of the administration enabling this hanging on a wall. This is so triggering for my PTSD. Fuck man. This is not okay. I am not okay.

Amid the Israeli and US strikes on Iran, a wave of cyberattacks have also targeted the country, the semi-official Fars news agency reports. Fars says that several major Iranian news agencies were targeted and "experienced severe disruptions in their operations," and that some widely used mobile applications were also experiencing disruptions.

Given reports that Israeli intelligence assesses Khamenei was killed, I assess with high (extreme) confidence that cyber was used to: 1. Confirm his location and direct the attacks. 2. Using collection on Iranian gov officials (e.g., email) reactions of the strike.