The word is the infamous locked Apple Iphone was cracked for the FBI by Cellebrite, an Israeli company. If anyone knows about snooping into phones and phone calls it is the Israelis.

Amdocs is the world leader in cell phone billing and the implication is they can record meta data if not actual speech or text anytime, anywhere.

Then there is Comverse (by Philip Giraldi):

Comverse Infosys, which dissolved in 2013 after charges of conspiracy, fraud, money laundering and making false filings, provided wiretapping equipment to law enforcement throughout the United States. Because equipment used to tap phones for law enforcement is integrated into the networks that phone companies operate, it cannot be detected.

In this video, yanked by Fox News soon after it was aired, Carl Cameron will tell you:

Israel is the most aggressive of the “friendly” nations that spy on us. Read the rest of this entry »