Unit 8200: Israel’s cyber spy agency – Former insiders and whistle-blowers provide a view of the formidable military intelligence outfit | FT Magazine

Unit 8200: Israel’s cyber spy agency – Former insiders and whistle-blowers provide a view of the formidable military intelligence outfit | FT Magazine

In a searingly hot afternoon at a campuslike new science park in Beer Sheva, southern Israel, I watched as a group of bright, geeky teenagers presented their graduation projects. Parents and uniformed army personnel milled around a windowless room packed with tables holding laptops, phones or other gadgets. There was excited chatter and a pungent smell of adolescent sweat…