How Israeli military-connected corporations are secretly controlling your online privacy
By ljdevon // 2025-04-07
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As VPNs become essential for digital freedom, a disturbing truth emerges: Many are owned by an Israeli firm tied to assassination squads, mass surveillance, and blackmail operations. Key Points: • Hidden Ownership: Kape Technologies, an Israeli-linked firm, controls multiple top VPNs (ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access) while employing former Israeli intelligence officers. • Spyware Roots: Former leaders of Kape and ExpressVPN have ties to Unit 8200 (Israel’s NSA) and Duvdevan, an assassination unit that targets Palestinians. • Kompromat Risk: Unit 8200 has been caught extorting Palestinians using intimate personal data—raising fears the same tools could be deployed against VPN users. • Global Censorship Influence: Former Israeli military operatives occupy key roles in Meta (Facebook), Google, and Microsoft, shaping online discourse while suppressing Palestinian voices. • Market Manipulation: Kape owns VPN review sites like vpnMentor, suspiciously ranking its own products as "best" for privacy—despite its history of malware and surveillance ties.

Israeli spies now profit from your "Privacy"

In an era where governments and corporations track every online move, millions turn to virtual private networks (VPNs) as a shield against surveillance. Yet what if the very companies claiming to protect your data are run by operatives from one of the world’s most aggressive surveillance states? Kape Technologies, which owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, and Private Internet Access, presents itself as a champion of digital freedom. However, its leadership reads like a who’s-who of Israeli military intelligence. From former Unit 8200 hackers to ex-Duvdevan assassination squad members, these are the last people who should control the world’s most sensitive browsing data. "If you're an ExpressVPN customer, you shouldn't be." — Edward Snowden

From malware to mass surveillance: Kape’s alarming past

Before rebranding as Kape in 2018, the company operated as Crossrider, notorious for browser hijacking and injecting unwanted ads. Its pivot to "privacy tools" was less about principles and more about escaping a toxic reputation. Even then, its acquisitions raised red flags: • ExpressVPN hired Daniel Gericke, a former mercenary hacker who spied on journalists for the UAE government, leading to arrests and torture. • CEO Ido Erlichman is a Duvdevan veteran, an elite Israeli unit that poses as Palestinians to carry out extrajudicial killings. • Founder Teddy Sagi, an Israeli billionaire with close IDF ties, funnels money to military charities while his VPN empire profits from global distrust in Big Tech. Unit 8200’s playbook is clear: weaponize data. The same unit that blackmails Palestinians with their private medical records and AI-targets civilians in Gaza could now have backdoor access to VPN users’ browsing histories.

Big Tech’s Israeli infiltration

Israel’s surveillance-industrial complex doesn’t stop at VPNs. Meta, Google, and Microsoft teem with Unit 8200 veterans, ensuring pro-Israel bias in content moderation:
  • Emi Palmor (ex-Israeli Ministry of Justice) decides what’s censored on Facebook and Instagram.
  • Google’s Waze was co-developed by Unit 8200 operatives—now used for mapping and tracking protests.
  • Facebook’s Onavo VPN (a Unit 8200 product) was caught spying on users to crush competition.
  • This digital occupation mirrors Israel’s real-world strategy: infiltrate, control narratives, and silence dissent.

The ultimate question: Who really owns your privacy?

Modern VPNs promise freedom but may instead enable a foreign regime to profile activists, journalists, and dissidents. This is stark, disturbing reality, especially considering the role of independent journalists in holding rogue regimes to account. Are Israeli espionage teams tracking and building a psychological profile on journalists and activists who dare hold them to account? As Israel markets its "battle-tested" surveillance tech globally, Kape’s rise underscores a chilling reality: privacy is now a commodity sold by those who perfected mass espionage. Will the world wake up before every encrypted message becomes another file in Unit 8200’s database? How will these espionage teams use their VPN intel to intimidate, censor, and control the narrative on Israel's actions in the Middle East? Sources include: FreeWestMedia.com MintPressNews.com Enoch, Brighteon.ai
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