You Gave Them Root
- Patrick Duggan
- Mar 8
- 8 min read
# You Gave Them Root
"Assume breach" was never a security posture. It was a confession.
The same military unit that built the tools to break into your cameras, your phones, and your networks also built the tools you bought to defend against them. And when they told you to "assume breach," they were telling you to your face: we're already in.
You just didn't realize who was talking.
The Unit
Unit 8200. Israel's signals intelligence directorate. The NSA's counterpart. The single most prolific incubator of cybersecurity companies on earth.
The clean pipeline:
- **Check Point Software** (1993) — Gil Shwed. Invented the stateful firewall. The genesis node. Good people.
- **Palo Alto Networks** (2005) — Nir Zuk. 8200 → Check Point → NetScreen → Palo Alto. Same DNA.
- **CyberArk** — Udi Mokady. Privileged access management.
- **Wiz** — Four 8200 + Talpiot alumni. Cloud security. Google bought it for $32 billion.
The dirty pipeline:
- **NSO Group** — Pegasus. Zero-click phone compromise. Camera and mic activation. Sanctioned by US Commerce Department.
- **Toka** (2018) — Ehud Barak co-founded. Hacks into security cameras. Alters live and recorded footage. Leaves no forensic traces.
- **Carbyne** (2014, as Reporty) — Amir Elichai (8200). Ehud Barak chairman. Jeffrey Epstein investor. Epstein named the company. Axon acquired for $625 million.
- **Paragon Solutions** (2019) — Ehud Barak co-founded. Graphite spyware. Acquired for ~$900 million.
- **Candiru** — Government spyware. Targets journalists and dissidents.
Same unit. Same training. Same talent pool. Same investor networks. Clean pipeline on the left, dirty pipeline on the right. And Ehud Barak — the former Israeli Prime Minister who maintained an apartment in Jeffrey Epstein's building — sits at the intersection.
Combined Barak exits: over $1.5 billion from three surveillance companies.
The Technology
Carbyne — the company Epstein named — does something specific. When someone calls 911 from a smartphone, Carbyne's technology:
- Streams **live video** from the caller's camera to the dispatcher
- Tracks **precise GPS location** with indoor positioning to within one meter
- Extracts **device data** — contacts, location history, messages
- Processes over **250 million data points** annually
- Covers **250+ million people** across hundreds of agencies
The technology turns every smartphone into a potential surveillance device the moment a 911 call is initiated. And it was built by Unit 8200 veterans, funded by a convicted sex offender, chaired by a former head of state, and sold to American emergency services.
In November 2025, Axon — maker of Tasers and the dominant provider of police body cameras — acquired Carbyne for $625 million. Two months earlier, Axon acquired Prepared (AI-powered 911 processing) for $800-900 million.
The combined platform now creates an end-to-end surveillance pipeline: 911 call intake → live video and device data extraction → body camera recording → evidence management → AI-generated reports → prosecution. From the moment you dial 911 to the moment you're in a courtroom. One company. One pipeline. Seeded by a pedophile, built by signals intelligence veterans, and deployed across American law enforcement.
The Other Company
But Carbyne isn't the interesting one. Toka is.
Toka was co-founded in 2018 by Ehud Barak — the same Barak who chaired Carbyne, the same Barak who maintained Apartment 11J in Epstein's building, the same Barak whose 30+ visits to Epstein between 2013 and 2017 are documented in the files.
Toka's capabilities, confirmed by a Haaretz investigation and an ethical hacker who reviewed technical documents:
- **Locates all security cameras and webcams within a defined perimeter**
- **Hacks into them remotely**
- **Watches live video feeds**
- **Alters live video feeds in real time**
- **Modifies archived and recorded footage**
- **Leaves no digital forensic traces on hacked devices**
Read that last line again. Leaves no digital forensic traces.
Toka sells exclusively to state clients — governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement. It's overseen by the Israeli Defense Ministry. Human rights experts have called it "dystopian."
One man co-founded both companies. The live-video-from-phones company and the hack-cameras-and-alter-footage company. The same man who visited a convicted sex offender 30+ times and co-invested in his surveillance startup through a partnership called Sum (E.B.) 2015.
The Cameras
August 9-10, 2019. Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York.
Jeffrey Epstein — the man who funded Carbyne, named Carbyne, and invested alongside the co-founder of Toka — was found dead in his cell.
The cameras:
- 11 cameras existed in the Special Housing Unit
- **10 of 11 were not recording** — hard drive failures dating back to late July 2019
- **2 cameras directly in front of Epstein's cell malfunctioned**
- The backup preservation system "failed"
- DVR 2 suffered a motherboard failure on **August 8** — one day before
- The surveillance system was configured to retain only 30 days of footage
The footage:
- The FBI's "raw" video was analyzed by WIRED magazine and forensic experts at Garrett Discovery
- It had been **modified** — metadata showed it was made of **two clips stitched together using Adobe Premiere Pro**
- **Nearly 3 minutes were missing**
- A 62-second gap from 11:58:58 PM to 12:00:00 AM could not be recovered
- AG Pam Bondi blamed a "nightly system reset" — the FBI specialist who reviewed the system said this theory **could not be tested**
- CBS News found that released video logs **contradicted official accounts** of who entered Epstein's tier
And then:
- In **June 2024**, an FBI agent was granted authorization to **destroy evidence item 1B60** — the master archive of surveillance video from Epstein's final hours
- The master copy was destroyed in **May 2025**
- The FBI described it as "no longer pertinent"
The master copy of the surveillance footage from the night the most connected sex offender in American history died in federal custody was destroyed. No longer pertinent.
The Guards
Tova Noel and Michael Thomas. Assigned to monitor Epstein.
They were sleeping. They were shopping online. They falsified the round logs — signing certifications that 30-minute checks had been completed when they hadn't. Epstein was unmonitored and alone for approximately 8 hours.
Both were indicted in November 2019 for falsifying records. Both entered a deferred prosecution agreement. Both avoided prison. Charges were dropped entirely.
No one has ever served a day in prison for any failure related to Jeffrey Epstein's death.
The Autopsy
Dr. Barbara Sampson, NYC Chief Medical Examiner, ruled it suicide by hanging.
Dr. Michael Baden — former NYC Chief Medical Examiner, hired by the Epstein family — was present during the autopsy. He found multiple fractures of the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage and called the injuries "extremely unusual in suicidal hangings" and "more consistent with homicidal strangulation."
As of February 2026, Baden continues to challenge the suicide ruling.
AG William Barr called it a "perfect storm of screw-ups." He identified the specific failures: guards not doing rounds, no cellmate assigned, camera system failures. He said he personally reviewed security footage.
The footage he reviewed was later found to have been edited with Adobe Premiere Pro.
Assume Breach
Here is what the cybersecurity industry needs to understand:
The doctrine "assume breach" was developed within a security ecosystem built by the same military unit that produced the tools to breach you. The people who told you to assume you were compromised were the people who had the capability — and the institutional infrastructure — to compromise you.
**1,400 Israeli intelligence veterans** are currently working in US tech companies. **900 from Unit 8200 alone.** Five 8200-founded companies publicly traded in the US are worth approximately **$160 billion combined.**
Carbyne handles your 911 calls. Pegasus compromised your phones. Toka can hack your cameras and alter the footage without leaving traces. CyberArk manages your privileged access. Wiz monitors your cloud. Check Point inspects your packets. Palo Alto guards your network perimeter.
Clean pipeline and dirty pipeline. Same unit. Same training. Same methods. Different business cards.
And when the man who funded and named the 911 surveillance company became inconvenient, 10 of 11 cameras stopped working, two guards fell asleep, and the FBI destroyed the master copy.
The Growth Hack
It gets worse. Wiz — the $32 billion cloud security company founded by four 8200/Talpiot alumni — didn't grow through product-market fit alone.
Cyberstarts, the VC fund behind Wiz, ran an internal program called **"Sunrise."** The mechanism:
- Paid CISOs at **Starbucks, Home Depot, Walmart, and Zoom** up to **$250,000** as "advisors"
- Payments went **directly to CISOs' personal bank accounts**, bypassing corporate disclosure
- Those CISOs then championed Cyberstarts portfolio companies inside their enterprises
- Calcalist investigated — Cyberstarts founder Gili Raanan (10 years in Unit 8200) was forced to **suspend Sunrise payments in June 2024**
His $6.4 million Wiz seed bet returned **$1.42 billion**. A 222x return. Cyberstarts has raised $720 million across 5 funds.
Not product-market fit. Product-market bribery. Same pattern as pharma paying doctors to prescribe — but in cybersecurity, with less regulatory oversight, and with the people doing the paying coming from the same signals intelligence unit that built the offensive tools.
You gave them root. They gave your CISO a check.
He Who Lives by the Pedo
Jeffrey Epstein funded Carbyne. He named Carbyne. He directed its strategy. He brokered the Thiel introduction. He coordinated with Barak through daily emails. He was the connective tissue between the dirty pipeline and the money.
And when he became a liability — when the prospect of a trial meant he might talk about what Carbyne really was, who funded it, and what capabilities were deployed through 8200's commercial network — 10 cameras stopped working in a federal facility built to prevent exactly this.
The man who funded surveillance technology designed to access live video feeds died in a facility where the video feeds stopped working.
The company he named — Carbyne — was acquired by Axon for $625 million six years later. Nobody went to prison. The master copy was destroyed. And the technology he helped build is now embedded in American 911 infrastructure, processing 250 million data points a year, covering 250 million people.
He gave them root. They used it. On him.
The Numbers
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Unit 8200 alumni in US tech | 1,400 |
| 8200-founded US public companies value | ~$160 billion |
| Barak surveillance company exits | >$1.5 billion |
| Carbyne acquisition (Axon) | $625 million |
| Epstein investment in Carbyne | $1 million |
| Junkermann investment in Carbyne | $500,000 |
| Thiel/Founders Fund | First Israeli startup backed |
| MCC cameras not recording | 10 of 11 |
| Cameras on Epstein's cell | 2 (both malfunctioned) |
| Minutes cut from "raw" footage | ~3 |
| FBI master copy | Destroyed May 2025 |
| Guards who served prison time | 0 |
| People held accountable | 0 |
| Wiz Sunrise CISO payments | Up to $250,000 |
| Cyberstarts Wiz return | 222x ($6.4M → $1.42B) |
What We Have
We have 398,560 DOJ documents. We have the EFTA emails where Epstein named the company: *"Baby great. Strategy, change name."* We have the investment structure: Epstein via Southern Trust, Junkermann via Montilla International, Barak via Sum (E.B.) 2015. We have Barak's daily correspondence. We have the Toka capability disclosure from Haaretz. We have the MCC camera failure timeline. We have the WIRED forensic analysis showing Adobe Premiere Pro edits. We have the FBI evidence destruction authorization.
And we have the MCC surveillance footage in our corpus — searchable, indexed, public.
The documents are public. The search engine is free. The cross-index is live.
**Search the files:** [epstein.dugganusa.com](https://epstein.dugganusa.com)
**Cross-index:** [epstein.dugganusa.com/cross-index/barak.html](https://epstein.dugganusa.com/cross-index/barak.html)
*DugganUSA LLC — Minneapolis, MN. One name on the line, no hiding behind a foundation.*
*Free STIX/TAXII Feed: [analytics.dugganusa.com](https://analytics.dugganusa.com)*
*Epstein Files Search: [epstein.dugganusa.com](https://epstein.dugganusa.com)*
*Support the mission: [epstein.dugganusa.com/donate](https://epstein.dugganusa.com/donate)*
*Sources: U.S. Department of Justice Epstein File Releases (Datasets 9-11), DOJ Office of Inspector General Report 23-085, WIRED magazine forensic analysis (Jul 2025), Garrett Discovery forensic examination, Haaretz investigation of Toka capabilities (Dec 2022), CBS News MCC video investigation, Anadolu Agency (FBI evidence destruction), Whitney Webb/MintPress News (Carbyne/8200), Calcalist/Ctech (Cyberstarts Sunrise investigation), Drop Site News (8200 in US tech), Axon investor press release (Carbyne acquisition Nov 2025), DugganUSA CARVER matrix, DugganUSA Meilisearch corpus (398K+ documents).*
*Her name was Renee Nicole Good.*
*His name was Alex Jeffery Pretti.*
Comments