“Many don’t realize that we developed most, if not all, of the fixes out there that are marketed or portrayed as methods to defeat tracking, precisely as a method of conducting that tracking.”

Herzeliya, June 15 – Israeli military and defense figures speaking at the annual Herzeliya Conference told the audience today that as a preemptive measure, the IDF will soon release detailed information on the pornography consumption by every important Hamas and Hezbollah official.

Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Ganz and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Knesset Yuval Steinitz both referred to the initiative, which is a product of AMAN, Israel’s military intelligence apparatus. Both of them said the project was a pilot begun under a previous administration, and was ready to be launched formally, but has been operating more or less as planned for a number of years. The officials declined to disclose exactly how long.

The initiative, called Publicizing Opponents’ Regional Net Habits for Use in Battle (PORNHUB), uses technology developed by the Israeli military to tap into networks used by enemy commanders and political leaders, and defeats the techniques those figures use to conceal or delete the evidence of their pornography habits, said Ganz.

“Most people think that encryption, deleting browser history, and getting rid of cookies on one’s device are enough to eliminate or hide traces of online activity one doesn’t want known to others,” explained the retired general, part of whose tenure included oversight of PORNHUB. “What many don’t realize is that we developed most, if not all, of the fixes out there that are marketed or portrayed as methods to defeat tracking, precisely as a method of conducting that tracking. The only thing that’s actually concealed is our monitoring of those internet connections.”

In fact, said Steinitz, the project’s initial diagnostics were so promising that it was modified to include the launching of several streaming pornographic video websites that became wildly popular, one of which carries the name of the project itself, as a kind of an inside joke by the development team. “Creating a set of sites – that are a runaway success, I might add, bringing in enough to make this project self-funding – was intended to make it easier to lure our targets to a more centralized network of content.”

While Steinitz and Ganz did not reveal the project’s budget or significant details of its activities, the former general told conference attendees that Hamas leader in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh appears to have a weakness for little boys, that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah prefers mothers seducing their stepsons, and self-proclaimed Islamic State Caliph Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has established profiles on at least four gay dating sites.