“Nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter. One camera had an angle that proved particularly useful, one of the people said, allowing them to determine where the men liked to park their personal cars and providing a window into the workings of a mundane part of the zealously guarded complex. Complex algorithms added details to the files of these security guards, including their addresses, working hours, the routes they took to get to work, and, most importantly, whom they were typically assigned to protect and transport, creating what intelligence officers call a ‘life pattern.’”