"The $900 million acquisition of Paragon by U.S. private equity firm AE Industrial Partners tells you everything you need to know about who profits from your digital insecurity.

"The $900 million acquisition of Paragon by U.S. private equity firm AE Industrial Partners tells you everything you need to know about who profits from your digital insecurity. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak reportedly pocketed $10-15 million from the deal, a tidy sum for a politician-turned-surveillance capitalist.

What the LinkedIn photos show is chilling: a Czech phone number labeled “Valentina,” interception logs marked “Completed,” and application-level data categories targeting encrypted services. This isn’t some theoretical cybersecurity threat, it is the real-time dashboard of the modern surveillance capitalism system we endure."
https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/the-israeli-spyware-firm-that-accidentally