Russia provided Israel with Iranian aerial defense system codes

[sumskilz]

WikiLeaks has released an email exchange between employees of Stratfor, the US-based global intelligence company, which reveals Israel and Russia made a deal to swap access codes for defense and surveillance equipment.

According to the leaked document, Israel gave Russia the "data link codes" for unmanned aerial vehicles that the Jewish state sold to Georgia, and in return, Russia gave Israel the codes for Tor-M1 missile defense systems that Russia sold Iran.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...196367,00.html

Had to post this since it involves some of the mudpit’s favorite countries. The issue for Georgia may be irrelevant at this point since they’ve already realized their UAVs were compromised, though I suspect this story means they won’t be buying anything from Israel in the future.

What does this mean for international weapon sales? Obviously this could happen to any country that buys from a foreign source. I assume having knowledge of the situation will mean that Iran can take precautions, but I’m not knowledgeable as to how these codes work. Would they need Russian assistance to reprogram them?

[legate]

Interesting. I think someone also posted that Turkey gave Israel codes and info on the Russian SA300 that they sold to Cyprus.

Knowing the codes will help them jam/hinder the radar lock on the weapon systems more effectively.

[Treize]

This message has been seriously debated at another forum that I am a member of... In any case, it doesn't really change much as these codes can be easily changed.

[Kanaric]

And continuously provided to israel

[Treize]

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The S-300 is in Iran, the Russians can't do much about them anymore. Also, the Iranians have already built reversed engineered S-300's themselves.

Same with the drones, but then again this is a very dubious source.

[Phier]

The problem I have with wikileaks as people accept it as 100% accurate when in fact I'd trust wikipedia far more.

Being there is no way to verify almost anything they produce, even if the document is legitimate it does not mean its true.

[Kitsunegari]

Interesting, it looks like the old USSR-Israel animosity is starting to fade.

[Heinz Guderian]

I read the Israelis are given important technical gamechanging information on the majority of arms that the Egyptians, Jordanians and Gulf Arabs buy from America, so it may not be too far fetched. Benefits of having such a disproportionately strong Jewish Lobby "guiding" the American government.

[Blaze86420]

I read the Israelis are given important technical gamechanging information on the majority of arms that the Egyptians, Jordanians and Gulf Arabs buy from America, so it may not be too far fetched. Benefits of having such a disproportionately strong Jewish Lobby "guiding" the American government.

Gosh we're ing idiots.

[Condottiere 40K]

There are many old rumours which abound.

The British twisted the French arm to get the codes for the Argentinian Exocets, the Israelis sell embargoed American technology to the Chinese, and who knows what else.

The first thing you do when you get technology from a third party is start looking for backdoors, and change the password.

[s.rwitt]

The problem I have with wikileaks as people accept it as 100% accurate when in fact I'd trust wikipedia far more.

Boom.
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I read the Israelis are given important technical gamechanging information on the majority of arms that the Egyptians, Jordanians and Gulf Arabs buy from America, so it may not be too far fetched. Benefits of having such a disproportionately strong Jewish Lobby "guiding" the American government.

ARE YOU REFERRING TO THE HUMUS EATERS AGAIN?

[motiv-8]

Man hummus is so ing good.

[s.rwitt]

Heinz, they're here.

[Armenum]

Dirty Intel exchange going on, nothing new...

[|Sith| Max]

This stuff is pretty normal in the power game.