When we hear praises about Israel's IT industry, we have to keep in mind that those praises are directed to an industry that mostly produces and sells spyware, malware, surveillanceware and any kind of software whose only purpose is to steal data or hack other systems.

And it managed to build such an industry by attracting ITSec talent from all around the world thanks to big salaries kindly provided by its nearly 6% of GDP that goes into military spending.

If, say, Iran were to develop such an industry in such a way, we'd be quick to label it as a terrorist attempt to subvert the world's order.

But since it's Israel doing it, and we as Western countries are the biggest customers of their products, and we've already decided long ago that we support them even if they were to implement their own version of the Holocaust, I guess that it's alright?

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/16/insanet_spyware/