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   From: d@ray   
      
   An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most   
   sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual   
   or political activities. But few people know that a considerable chunk of   
   that market—including three of the six most popular VPNs—is quietly   
   operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that   
   country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and   
   Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).   
      
   Previous MintPress News investigations into Israel’s growing control over   
   the tech industry have outlined how those units have been involved in many   
   of Israel’s most outrageous hacking, surveillance and assassination   
   programs, acting as spies and death squads. Unit 8200, for example, has   
   been the source of much of the world’s most infamous spying software,   
   including Cellebrite and Pegasus, the program used to snoop on tens of   
   thousands of the world’s top politicians and journalists, including by   
   Saudi Arabia, who used it to help track down and kill Washington Post   
   columnist Jamal Khashoggi.   
      
   Given this context, justifiable fears arise that control over a vast VPN   
   empire could add to Israel’s influence over the online information and   
   security world, creating backdoors for Israeli intelligence to carry out a   
   vast kompromat operation on users around the globe.   
      
   This investigation is part of a series highlighting and detailing the power   
   of Israel’s growing tech industry to access and control people’s data.   
      
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