ChineseKungFuMaster

ChineseKungFuMaster | Joined since 2020-05-29

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Bruce Lee (李小龙), a great master of Chinese martial arts, is also a famous and influential action movie actor both at home and abroad. As the pathfinder of action movies, Bruce Lee disseminated Chinese Kung Fu to the whole world.

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2020-06-16 10:22 | Report Abuse

Pakatan wins big every time Anwar is jailed.

2008, Pakatan Rakyat won 5 states when Anwar was jailed. But it lost Perak a year later when Anwar tried to replace MB Nizar with PKR candidate. He was happy when UMNO Dun jumped to PKR, ended up that was trojan horse and Perak handed back to BN.

2018, Pakatan Harapan won Putrajaya when Anwar was jailed. But it lost Putrajaya less than 2 years later because Anwar and his supporter kept pushing for timetable which prompt insecure PPBM left PH.

Having seen what could happen when Anwar is jailed, and some of them worked side by side with him before, PN won't send Anwar back to jail for third time.

Anwar Ibrahim is great disrupter and Pakatan will be in a mess and lesser threat if he around. And he will help Muhiyddin keep Dr Mahathir away from Putrajaya.

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2020-06-16 09:26 | Report Abuse

"Anwar welcomes Najib’s call to revive RM30 bil forex case" -

Not what I want from a PM candidate.

He has spent the last two weeks taking pot-shots at Madey from the 1990s, switching off his phone, and refusing to negotiate.

This retro-bitchiness is not "policy".

68 MPs want Mahathir, 39 want Anwar.

That's just from Anwar's own numbers.

Anwar has no further aces. He cannot get any other MPs to join. His 39 is maxed out, and is actually falling.

Is PH a democracy?

Why is this so hard to get?

Go with the majority, Anwar.

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2020-06-15 14:19 | Report Abuse

The first major flaw is that the Penjana package does not address the loss of income of approximately 1.5 million daily paid workers in the informal sector.
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Another good commentary by Dr Jeyakumar. Maybe it is too much to expect PN leaders who ride in mercedes benzs and earn fat salaries to think of these 1.5 million daily paid workers who literally live from hand to mouth.
The PN government is behaving as if parliament does not exist and they are accountable to no one.

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2020-06-15 11:59 | Report Abuse

Malaysia is a very corrupted country. Now with the traitor and fully corrupt backdoor govt,the country is doomed. The govt seem to be pouring all the money on civil servants and politicians.They hardly help the SMEs.

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2020-06-15 11:56 | Report Abuse

This Mazli Noor guy is a clown..The only increase in GDP is towards Umno/Pas and GLCs ..Are you smoking weeds or drinking ketum.
Look at Kelantan in what state it is..Most Kelantanese are outside the state just to Cari makan unlike their politicians moving around in chaffeur driven Mercs..Consume less ketum next time when given statements..Aduuuhhh

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2020-06-15 10:11 | Report Abuse

Why not sign ICERD then?

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2020-06-12 18:12 | Report Abuse

Govt tipuuuuu

4-5 million migrant workers

1mill positive

do the maths

Singapore wifi, ID app, food hygiene medical, good living space - 300ooo over 40ooo positive half tested

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2020-06-12 09:27 | Report Abuse

In an aircraft carrying hundreds in a confined space, no need social distancing! In a coffee shop, relatively open space, only 20+ people, social distancing has to be enforced. Doesn't sound logical.

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2020-06-11 11:03 | Report Abuse

Not surprised...part of the legacy of ....?

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2020-06-11 09:30 | Report Abuse

As US retreats from Hong Kong, the EU and Asean advances to fill in the gap. That’s all.

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2020-06-10 11:48 | Report Abuse

Well the new AG was not appointed for nothing! In fact he has now become a man on a mission to right the wrong. In this case to undo all the good work by the previous AG. I suppose that is part of the goodies that Muhyddin promised to all Umno people. Everybody will get some good news. Pakatan if you guys have the number, now is the time.

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2020-06-10 11:19 | Report Abuse

Why not the MACC follow the money trails. first ask Musa Aman the names of all the donors of the alleged political funds. then go and interrogate all the donors whether they indeed gave the donations and then ask them the source(s) of their donation money which must be counterchecked with the Inland Revenue Dept etc etc. Its not at all logical or convincing that the former AG Tommy Thomas, had brought the 46 charges so specifically without first scrutinising all the required evidence, documentary or otherwise including statements from witnesses. All law students of criminal law are taught this basic elementary requirement that the available evidence must support all the essential ingredients of an offence before a charge could be framed. And we all know that Mr Tommy Thomas and all the DPPs under him in the AG Chambers working on these charges against Musa Aman are not first year law students! And in any case, what former AG Gani Patail had said in his said Affidavit ought to be tested in court. The current AG shud not have just accepted everything as the gospel truth

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2020-06-10 10:48 | Report Abuse

SweetMemoryLane, This divide and conquer thingy goes way back to the British rule; no credit to the Donald

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2020-06-09 11:27 | Report Abuse

Face it, if hk want to end communism. So that's why the national security law.Just not to make the problem bigger than it is. HK should not have gotten Trump involved, nor the Taiwan secessionists and the right-wing anti-communists. Once you made the problem big, then Hong Kong will stay in this mess and China will clean up.

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2020-06-09 11:14 | Report Abuse

Independence didn't have support in HK but after the passage of the security law I did notice more people crying out for independence. Typical chicken and egg situation.

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2020-06-09 11:08 | Report Abuse

Doesn't matter either way. I think the Chinese already have their calculus set.

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2020-06-09 11:05 | Report Abuse

Hong Kong rioters have made the foolish mistake of calling for American help. Already add odds with the USA, there is no way for China to back down over Hong Kong. So guess what, that's where you are now.

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2020-06-09 11:05 | Report Abuse

AndyChin77, Is the NY stock exchange really American? I suspect more then half is money from all around the world.
The real problem for HK is that its currency is coupled to the US$.

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2020-06-09 10:10 | Report Abuse

But youngsters certainly don't qualify. They prefer their US boss not the weakened Brexit UK..

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2020-06-09 10:09 | Report Abuse

US intervention is what the naive separatist youngsters want. Here it comes, enjoy!!.

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2020-06-09 10:08 | Report Abuse

hmmmm

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2020-06-08 18:27 | Report Abuse

The most pandai thing is before you ask that Jackarss why, he Quickly admit he only watch transmorpher from the internet only and never buy tickets for Transformers or even watch Transformers before!

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2020-06-08 18:24 | Report Abuse

Eh guys, not long ago going to the cinema watch Transformers(by Micheal Bay) in nearby cinema, while Queuing for tickets some anonymous jackarss disturb and ask those people at Queue not to buy tickets. Reason is that jackarss have watch Transmorphers(A total rip off by Leigh Scott) and says its the same movie as Transformers.....

(5 conlanfirm solid Answers by Jackarss that sure can chill your bones!)

1. Both movie are about robots...

2. Both movie robots can transform...

3. Both movie robots are aliens from other world...

4. Both movie have male and female actors...

5. Both movie those alien robot have contact with earth...


Lai lai lai Arbb 7181 fighters, everyone give some GOOD answers to that Jackarss if ITS bordering you while Queuing for buying Transformers ticket!

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2020-06-05 14:48 | Report Abuse

The moment it is hijacked by a minister you know how desperate certain politicians are to show their relevance. This initiative if so useful would have obtained a mention in other news outlets like AP, Reuters. Would have gotten better credibility and public relations promotion if they have cooperated with other universities here and elsewhere, and mentioned somehow by say WHO or IMF, or at the least UNESCO being scientific related.

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2020-06-05 10:47 | Report Abuse

The issue about the Yuan and main reason why it still plays and will remain playing a minor role as international reserve currency (not only small in comparison to the US-Dollar and Euro but also in comparison to several other currencies) is, that it is not freely tradable and China has extensive capital flow controls. As long as this is the case, the Yuan won't be able to play a similarly large role as e.g. the US Dollar or Euro.
Beijing will need to decide: are they willing to sacrifice these restrictions to enhance the role of the Yuan, or are they not and consider e.g. the control of capital flows as more important.

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2020-06-04 15:23 | Report Abuse

DoubleProsperity ,no need to teach them how to invest la, they will not appreciate your help on good and true opinion instead of saying thank you, they will blindly quarrel with you only....

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2020-06-04 11:57 | Report Abuse

One lesson for trump. The more u hit china.. The worst ur economy data at home. So go ahead..

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2020-06-04 11:31 | Report Abuse

Good counter example. To understand your statement more thoroughly (I hope you believe me I am not trying to challenge,) I would need to know the racial and religious make-up of the particular city you are talking about. It is all in the details. I can have Chinese elected a mayor in England or US, just give me a large enough majority. So, some details will be helpful.
As for China, it is clearly not racially diversify, so your statement cannot be properly assessed because the sample population is too small to make any meaningful comment. You might be right, but your comment does not prove it. So, maybe you can say China is so unattractive to others that it has so little foreign minority group ... but you can’t, with your particular example, claims it proves China’s racism. China has racism, you just did not prove it.

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2020-06-04 11:08 | Report Abuse

Correct SunnyWong , that’s freedom of expression if they want emigration to UK or anywhere else it’s their choice no one will stop them. Let them try to use their violence behavior elsewhere that is all too good for HK

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2020-06-03 13:30 | Report Abuse

Taiwan citizens are proud of the way they have behaved during the pandemic, having some of the fewest cases in the whole world without resorting to lockdown or violence. only quarantine of 2 weeks.

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2020-06-03 12:05 | Report Abuse

QueenElizebeth IV ...Fear-mongering... What u mentioned is happening everywhere in the world once u get connected. Knowing it or not is a no issue unless for those with hidden agendas.

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2020-06-03 11:57 | Report Abuse

Every person going to mainland is now feeding the largest DNA collected database ever.
Owner: CCP
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So, "Outdated software" is actually a good thing compare to "Superspeed 5G China share with Xi friends"

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2020-06-02 14:03 | Report Abuse

A bad step by China and long overdue !
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The pan-dems had their chance (in fact many chances) but they succeed it by supporting the radicals and the rioters.
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The people of HK want peace and security . They don't want riots, vandalism , petrol bombs and other things the CCP force rioters do .
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The average HK person (which is 95% ) hated and condemn this new law !

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2020-06-02 12:06 | Report Abuse

"China secure sites to fast track coronavirus production" is damn misleading! Until real effective vaccine is out in the market, then only we can believe especially for china! NO cheat NO lie it ain't normal china!

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2020-06-01 16:28 | Report Abuse

AndyChin77 ,If Trump is re-elected Nov 202, he needs to SCRATCH the back of POMPEO who will run for 2024 ont he same BAND WAGON...we need to KILL off CHINA as competitor.
Trump will want favourable Pompeo business largesse. So China and the rest of the world will have Trump and Pompeo for next 8yrs.
HOW CHAOTIC and INSANE.
If I was any other country, like France and Germany, they are STEERING well of USA, ad they are WORKING full stem ahead with CHINA for the next 8yrs given the political and social mess America will continue to be under, with the governance of Trump and Pompeo due for next 8yrs.
THAT IS HUGELY SCARY so Europe has said...no thanks.

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2020-06-01 14:41 | Report Abuse

If Trump was serious he`d offer to take any of the so call downtrodden from here and give them a life of freedom in the US. haha.

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2020-05-29 15:20 | Report Abuse

Special branch spying on political opponents?

Can our IGP come and refute this report with FACTS and EVIDENCE?

Please don't say this is fake news. Everytime there is a scandal the news reports from overseas are more truthful than local news.

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2020-05-29 15:07 | Report Abuse

Should circulate in BM widely to those in rural areas who have been misled .

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2020-05-29 14:48 | Report Abuse

Human rights were at the heart of the 2018 Malaysian election and their repeated violation was among the main reasons that brought Najib down. In his campaign, Najib’s opponent, Mahathir, focused on promises to annihilate corruption and cleanse Malaysia from Najib’s anti-democratic practices. Old habits, however, die hard, and despite his many promises, as prime minister, Mahathir has only enacted a fraction of the reforms he had promised in his campaign. Even though many of Najib’s draconian laws were canceled by the new government, quite a few laws were left in place, giving the regime extensive power over the press.

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2020-05-29 14:48 | Report Abuse

Kaye also mentioned NSO and Israel’s refusal to revoke its export license. He also wrote that a lack of substantial international pressure and a veil of secrecy justified by claims of national security are a major obstacle in regulating the export of cyber offensive technologies.


Kaye also mentioned that despite being one of the world’s biggest offensive cyber exporters, Israel is not an active member of the Wassenaar Arrangement, an international arrangement meant to regulate the sector. Israel has included items from the Wassenaar Arrangement’s control list to its own list of controlled goods, Kaye wrote, yet its level of enforcement in the country is unclear.


Senpai was founded in 2016 by five local tech veterans: Shloman, Banoun, David, Raiter, and Jonathan Lampert. Banoun was formerly employed by the cyber and intelligence unit of Nasdaq-listed software company Nice Ltd. and helped NSO market its Pegasus system to a country that cannot be specified due to a court-mandated gag-order. Lampert served as a sales manager for several defense contractors, including Paz Logistics Ltd., which, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, served as a mediator for the sale of military products to foreign law enforcement agencies. Shloman, according to his LinkedIn page, was formerly an executive at Verint.


Last month, the dispute between Senpai’s co-founders ended when the parties signed a confidential settlement and requested the court cancel the lawsuit. The lawsuit was originally filed by Lampert, Banoun, and Shloman, who alleged that their partners David and Raiter conspired with Dillian to steal the company away from them. Though it remains unclear if Senpai was indeed sold to Intellexa in the end, its system is currently offered to clients on the latter’s website.


The lawsuit also alleged Dillian was subject to an investigation by the internal military police for fiscal irregularities which led to his dismissal from the army. In 2019, Dillian was involved in a high profile affair involving a “spy van” confiscated by the Cipryote police. The van was developed by a company co-founded by Dillian in which Banoun was also a party.


Senpai’s activity was not enough to save Najib and UMNO’s regime, and shortly after losing the 2018 election, he was arrested by the Malaysian authorities on suspicion of receiving some $10 million as a bribe from a private company. The Malaysian police froze Najib’s assets, confiscating more than $220 million worth of real estate properties, diamonds, jewelry, purses, and watches. Najib’s trial began in April last year and is still ongoing.

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2020-05-29 14:47 | Report Abuse

Even before Facebook’s lawsuit, NSO’s name has repeatedly been linked to a series of questionable practices such as surveillance of human rights activists and journalists in Mexico, the hacking of an iPhone owned by a civil rights activist in the United Arab Emirates, and allegedly playing a part in the slaying of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul. Most recently, last year, members of human rights organization Amnesty International petitioned a Tel Aviv court to revoke NSO’s license after it allegedly targeted Amnesty members. NSO has repeatedly denied all of the aforementioned allegations.


Other Israeli companies to be linked to questionable regimes and surveillance against civilians are Cyberbit Ltd.—recently sold to American Investment firm Charlesbank Technology Opportunities Fund by its parent company Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems Ltd.—which, according to Canadian research center The Citizen Lab, provided the Ethiopian government with spyware software that was used to track journalists and dissidents; AnyVision Interactive Technologies Ltd., whose facial recognition technologies were reportedly used by Israeli forces to spy on Palestinians in the West Bank, costing it an investment from Microsoft; and DarkMatter, which operates out of the United Arab Emirates and employs veterans of Israel’s military intelligence and technology units. According to the New York Times, DarkMatter developed a popular chat app called ToTok, which turned out to be a means for the Emirati government to spy on its citizens and extract data from their phones.


The severity of the cases in which Israeli companies were involved, brought David Kaye, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, to name Israel in a May 2019 report calling states to “impose an immediate moratorium on the export, sale, transfer, use or servicing of privately developed surveillance tools until a human rights-compliant safeguards regime is in place.”


Kaye explained his position, writing that “surveillance of specific individuals—often journalists, activists, opposition figures, critics, and others exercising their right to freedom of expression—has been shown to lead to arbitrary detention, sometimes to torture, and possibly to extrajudicial killings.”

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2020-05-29 14:47 | Report Abuse

Another executive at a large cyber company who spoke to Calcalist on condition of anonymity said that more often than not, the client countries are even more reluctant to be associated with an Israeli product. “The offensive cyber industry,” he said, “is, in a way, parallel to the conventional military industry. Spyware may not kill people, but it does give the state a lot of power against its citizens.”


As previously mentioned, Senpai is just one of many Israeli cyber companies linked to non-democratic regimes, shady clients, controversial practices, or run-ins with the law. NSO, the developer of spyware Pegasus is perhaps the best known of the bunch. In October, encrypted messaging app WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook filed a lawsuit against NSO alleging the former and its Luxembourg-based affiliate Q Cyber Technologies Ltd. used WhatsApp’s servers to deliver malware to Approximately 1, 400 devices, to surveil certain USERS, around 100 of which were human rights activists and journalists.

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2020-05-29 14:46 | Report Abuse

The embezzlement was not limited to Malaysia’s ruling family and its associates. Najib took office shortly after the 2008 financial crisis, while investment bankers who managed to survive turned to the east in search of alternative markets.


Tim Leissner, then a partner at Goldman Sachs responsible for south-east Asia, also wanted a piece of Malaysia’s billion-dollar pie. Subsequently, Goldman Sachs issued $3.5 billion worth of bonds for 1MDB in exchange for $600 million, some 200 times the normally accepted fee. According to the allegations, this excessive payment constituted a bribe for turning a blind eye to the fund's corruption and illegal activity.


By 2015, 1MDB was in so much debt, that the Malaysian government had to find additional sources to fund it. Among other things, it emptied the national Hajj fund, used by the country’s Muslim majority to save for a pilgrimage to Mecca. Many citizens deposited money there for decades to be able to afford the religious ritual, which every observant Muslim is required to perform at least once in their lifetime.



When the embezzlement became public around a year later it led to a vast public outcry in Malaysia. Najib responded to the protests with a strong hand, jailing oppositionists and promoting legislation limiting the right of protest. The closer the 2018 election got, the more tense the situation in Malaysia became.


In January that year, Najib’s political mentor, Mahathir Mohamad who was the country’s prime minister between 1981 and 2003, announced he will be running for the seat again to fight corruption. Najib then decided to take his efforts to crush the opposition up a notch, and that is when Senpai came in the picture.


It is not often that government spy deals are exposed, and it is even more rare to find written evidence that the supplying company was completely aware of the type of use a government intended to make of its product. In fact, if it were not for A financial dispute between Senpai’s CO-founders, which found its way to a Tel Aviv court last year, the documents and correspondence exposing the company’s extensive activity would likely not have seen the light of day.


According to the documents submitted to the court, Senpai also provided its services in Mexico, Aquador, Gabon, Angola, Kenya, Indonesia, and Singapore. The price list it presented to potential clients ranged between $1.2 million and $1.6 million for the RogueEye system, $750,000-$1 million for the operation of avatars, and between $30,000 and $70,000 in monthly fees. Overall, Senpai’s deals since its establishment in 2016 amounted to over $9 million.


Officially, Senpai claimed its system only collects publicly available data, but correspondence between Shloman and one of the company’s salesmen, submitted to the court and reviewed by Calcalist, revealed that RogueEye also analyzes data from phones infected by spyware. The salesman, one Gregory Krasnostein, specifically wrote to Shloman that “Senpai’s system collected the data from the infected phone and is analyzing it.”


But, even Senpai’s officially declared activity of mining data using fake accounts is not free from ethical and legal concerns. “Using avatars to gather information is a very common practice for cyber companies,” an executive from the Israeli cyber industry told Calcalist on condition of anonymity. “This lets you collect information without having to hack anything and on some websites, for example, online forums, nobody uses their real name anyway,” he added.


It being common practice, however, does not necessarily also make it legal. “This is a complex issue in international law,” the executive said. “Consider, for example, creating a fake user to converse with a hacker and exchange information that I need to defend a client. Is it morally acceptable to negotiate with a criminal, even to exchange information with them? It would appear that the right course of action is to report them to the authorities.”


Senpai, like other Israeli cyber companies, chose to sell its services and products to countries that have no diplomatic relations with Israel through conduit companies. “This is a very common practice for Israeli companies that station most of their workforce outside of Israel,” the executive said.


It is important to keep in mind however, he said, that offensive cyber companies must gain an export license from the Israeli Ministry of Defense. He mentioned one well known company that has the ministry’s approval yet sells to Gulf States through its subsidiaries. This means that Israel is either fully aware of its conduct, or that the company is covering its tracks and fooling it using various business entities, he said. “Gulf States on their part also need to cover their tracks when buying Israeli technology,” he added.

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2020-05-29 14:45 | Report Abuse

Senpai’s sales targets and potential additional clients were discussed in a May 2019 Whatsapp correspondence between Banoun, often described as the company’s growth engine, responsible for securing clients and deals, and Intellexa’s owner, retired Israeli colonel Tal Dillian. In the correspondence obtained by Calcalist, Banoun lists future contracts that have been discussed verbally.


For Malaysia’s phase two agreements, Banoun counted, $300,000-$400,000 from the SB, between $2 million and $2.5 million from the country’s Prime Minister’s Office, between $800,000 and $2.2 million from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, and a similar sum from the police. Banoun also mentioned a potential deal in Oman for between $1.2 million and $2.5 million. It is unclear whether these deals were eventually signed.


Najib first rose to power in 2009 when he won the Prime Minister’s seat in a landslide. This came as no surprise, as Najib’s father before him was a beloved prime minister who also headed UMNO, the country’s ruling party since it declared independence in 1957. Najib’s father, Abdul Razak Hussein, had a record of top government roles including as the minister of defense, the minister of education, and the minister of finance and was considered the one responsible for saving Malaysia from the 2008 global financial crisis.


Abdul Razak was popular thanks to his liberal policies that placed great importance on direct communication between the government and its citizens and on financial growth, which was essential to the prosperity of the developing country.


After his election, Najib established a government investment fund called 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), intended to invest in global collaborations. The Malaysian government transferred over $1 billion to the fund, which raised an additional sum of at least $6.5 billion in state bonds. Following various media reports and a rigorous investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, it appeared the fund benefitted Najib and his associates most of all.


In its first months of activity, 1MDB invested billions of taxpayer Malaysian ringgits in a line of shady companies, some of which seem to have been established for this sole purpose. The fund’s management was entrusted in the hands of Jho Low, a little-known businessman, who was friends with Najib’s stepson as well as with several billionaires from the Gulf States.


It is possible that the alleged grandiose embezzlement would not have come to light if the people benefiting from it led a slightly more modest life, but they did the complete opposite of that. Low became famous for organizing grandiose parties. He paid American superstars, including Paris Hilton and Jamie Foxx, millions just to hang out with him, hired Britney Spears to jump out of a cake, and gifted luxury Bugatti cars to friends.


Najib’s second wife, Rosmah Mansor, rightfully earned the nickname the Malaysian Imelda Marcos—after the former first lady of the Philippines, known for her lavish lifestyle—due to her fondness for spending. According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s findings, Rosmah spent at least $6 million taken from the state fund. At one time, Rosmah reportedly filled a jet plane with luxury items acquired on a single shopping spree.


Malaysian taxpayer money funded the prime minister and his entourage’s frighteningly lavish lifestyles. Among Najib’s assets are three Manhattan properties: a $30 million penthouse at the Time Warner Center, a $33 million condo at Park Laurel Condominiums, and another $51 million penthouse. He also owns a $31 million mansion in Beverly Hills, a Los Angeles home priced at nearly $40 million, a $42 million London townhouse, a private business jet by Canadian company Bombardier Inc., nearly $100 million worth of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, and a Hollywood production company that was behind the 2013 hit starring Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”, which ironically dealt with the hedonistic lifestyle of another embezzler.

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Senpai’s flag product was RogueEye, a system that collects information on people from openly available online sources, such as social networks, and cross-references and analyzes it to produce intelligence reports for secret services, police forces, militaries, and business entities. Among RogueEye’s official data collection methods is a network of avatars (fake social network profiles) that follow the target and extract information through direct interaction with them.


A year after the election in Malaysia, according to correspondence obtained by Calcalist, Senpai was getting ready to sign a new contract with the SB that required adjusting the goals of the original contract in light of UMNO’s staggering defeat. “The client got the documents and we are waiting for his response,” Senpai co-founder and head of sales Roy Shloman said referring to “Magnum” in an email sent to fellow co-founders Guy David, Omri Raiter, and Eric Banoun on June 10, 2019.


“As you know, after the elections many things changed and became a bit more complicated,” Shloman wrote. “As for the client’s management process and based on some of the past conference calls with them, I think that we shall plan a visit to KL (Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, TG and HR)” he added.


"The main purpose of such a trip is to meet the client (face to face), conduct some Q&A sessions, and provide them with some tips and tricks on how to maximize the system,” Shloman continued. “Bear in mind, that their objectives changed after elections from political investigations to more criminal-terror investigations,” he wrote.


In his email, Shloman said he believes the changes in ML (Malaysia, TG and HR), should bring Senpai to change its business model. “We can do it together with our current channels,” he wrote, “and to offer such services to the business sector and to the low budgeted governmental agencies.”

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The pressure felt by Najib’s party, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), was so immense that, just over a month before the election, the Malaysian government signed a deal to acquire a system that allowed it to gather information and analyze data on civilian activity. The system was meant to be used by Malaysian intelligence agency the Special Branch (SB) to surveil political activists for the opposition, according to court documents obtained and reviewed by Calcalist. The company that developed and supplied the system to the Malaysian government was Senpai Technologies Ltd., a small Israeli cybersecurity startup.



The deal was signed in April 2018 with a price tag of $1.5 million and received the code name “Project Magnum.” Since Israel and Malaysia have no official diplomatic relations, the deal was signed through a Cypriot conduit company called Kohai Corp. Ltd., founded by two Senpai shareholders for the sole purpose of serving as a front for such deals. The Malaysian government’s plans for Senpai’s system were not kept secret from the company and its use for “political investigations״ is specifically mentioned in internal email correspondence.


Malaysia was not Senpai’s only controversial potential client and, according to documents reviewed by Calcalist, it had previously negotiated a deal to sell its services to the Sultanate of Oman on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, which also has no diplomatic ties to Israel.


Not many have heard of Senpai, whose activity has since been frozen, but it is just one in a long line of Israeli cyber companies that do not shy away from working with totalitarian regimes and countries that have no relations with Israel. Like many of its competitors, Senpai aimed sky high. In May 2019, It WAS reported that Senpai is planning to join cyber-focused consortium Intellexa Ltd., in hopes of forming a market-leading alliance that could compete with companies, such as NSO Group and Nasdaq-listed Verint Systems Inc.

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2020-05-29 14:43 | Report Abuse

Documents submitted to an Israeli court revealed Senpai’s methods of operation and its ties to questionable regimes, including its $1.5 million deal to supply Malaysia’s intelligence agency with surveillance tools to be used on civilians
In May 2018, Malaysia faced an especially turbulent election. The Muslim country’s veteran ruling party—led by the allegedly corrupt Prime Minister Najib Razak—was gasping for air.

During the campaign, no less than 2,300 candidates were attempting to dethrone Najib, who, throughout his 10-year reign, had rolled back human rights in the country, persecuted minority religious groups and members of the LGBTQ community, diminished free speech, and limited the freedom of the press. Najib was also accused of embezzling billions in state funds, and he and his family members were known for their lavish, eye-popping lifestyle.

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2020-05-29 14:16 | Report Abuse

Yes, don't test them. Just send them back with COVID 19 and what have you. Send them all back to Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Rohingya Myanmar. I am sure these countries will thank Malaysia for its kindness and generosity.

After all if they are found infected with COVID 19 it must be that they were infected in transit because our illegals are largely immune from COVID 19 unlike those weaklings in Singapore.