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Eirik Rossen (2010-09-30). "Hvem fører kyberkrig mot Iran? Spor i koden til Stuxnet-ormen peker mot Israel (Who leads the cyber war against Iran? Tracks in the Stuxnet worm code points to Israel)". Digi.no. Archived from the original on 2010-01-10. Retrieved 2010-01-10. I septembernummeret av Le Monde diplomatique er det en artikkel som prøver å kartlegge denne enheten, som for øvrig også er gjenstand for en artikkel i Wikipedia. (In the September issue of Le Monde diplomatique there is an article that tries to identify this device, which also is the subject of an article in Wikipedia.) {{cite news}}: External link in |quote= (help)

I don't think the U.S. intel member quoted by _The N.Y. Times_ was referring to Stuxnet.[edit]

Under its "Alleged operations" section this article has "In 2010, the New York Times cited 'a former member of the the United States intelligence community' alleging the Stuxnet software was prepared by this unit,[4]" i.e., by Unit 8200. But in the Times story linked to by Reference 4., this "former member of the United States intelligence community" is stated as having "said that the attack had been the work of Israel’s equivalent of America’s National Security Agency, known as Unit 8200," and since this statement comes in the paragraph immediately following a paragraph discussing the speculation that the Israeli Air Force had disrupted radar defenses prior to its 2007 raid on the suspected nuclear reactor in Syria, it seems that "the attack" in the quote from the article is a reference to Israel's sabotage of the Syrian radar, not the creation nor dissemination of Stuxnet. Another support for this interpretation would be the use of the past perfect verb form "had been," which signals a more remote past event, in the original quotation rather than something in greater proximity to the present time like the Stuxnet story. EdMcCorduck (talk) 21:48, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, it clearly was a mistaken interpretation. I went ahead and made the edit before I saw your note here. Kyle Cronan (talk) 05:12, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks. EdMcCorduck (talk) 11:37, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge suggestion[edit]

I think we should merge any sub-units in 8200 (e.g. Hatzav) here in order to create a more high-quality article instead of having one or more stubs that are unlikely to be expanded due to a paucity of reliable sources dealing with the subject. —Ynhockey ^(Talk) 13:26, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

univeristy murcia informatica computer science[edit]

israel unit 8200 is not only the best agency of security on line but on the table they collaborate with spains university of murcia in cybersecurity programs. they make no secret of these joint task forces.. they say the murcia univeristy creats students who take charge and come up woth ideas that allow security agnecies to be ahead of the attacker. the universidad de murcia informatica dept is open and its no secret about these travels and shared ideas. .murcia and technion both create some great students — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.139.193.163 (talk) 09:25, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

To add to article[edit]

Basic information to add to this article: exactly why it's called "8200." How could someone have written a supposedly encyclopedic article on this subject but failed to address this point, the answer for which readers would expect to find here? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 04:25, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Don't want to start a controversy but this Unit is highly controversial outside Israel, it's well documented - can we add this? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/07/20/nso-israel-intelligence/ --Massintel (talk) 02:10, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]