Have you guys started tracking ActiveFence aka
Alice.io?? Directly related to the 8200 and IDF. AI censor tool built with and for UK. See below details….👉
Company Profile
This AI driven tool to provide threats, mitigation, flagging, MIs/dis monitoring, narrative bots, Red Teaming, psy warfare etc. company is preeminent entity and signatory and vendor to EU DSA and other initiatives under the policy and trust safety adherence for social media, Amazon, Tik Tok, YouTube etc. They are a vendor under Carahsoft and contracts issued to US governmental agencies, counties, and carahsoft Elections program. Their work with DSA is to generate reports critical of X and non-compliant states to provide legal and financial charges. 
. It provides tools like harmful content detection (across text, images, video, etc.), moderation, real-time guardrails, red-teaming, model hardening, and threat intelligence.
alice.io israeldefense.co.il
As a commercial trust & safety platform, Alice:
• Provides API-based moderation (e.g., text/image/video scanning via their endpoints, integrated into tools like NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails).
• Relies on proprietary adversarial intelligence (“Rabbit Hole”) trained on massive real-world harmful content datasets.
• Works with social platforms and AI labs for UGC/GenAI protection — they monitor or moderate content on behalf of clients, but this is typically done via private integrations, webhooks, or bulk data feeds,
Associated entities in sphere:
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Founded 2018, by high level IDF executives in the field in intelligence. Rapid growth and expansion.
Background on Founders’ Experience
Many Israeli tech founders, especially in cybersecurity and intelligence-related fields, have military intelligence backgrounds, often from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). This is common due to mandatory service and elite units like Unit 8200 (signals intelligence, comparable to parts of the NSA).
• Noam Schwartz (CEO): Began his career as an intelligence officer in the Israeli military, focusing on research and counter-terrorism. He has experience in open-source intelligence (OSINT), security, and data science. Sources describe him as a former Unit 8200 alumnus in some contexts.
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• Iftach Orr (CTO): Also linked to Unit 8200 background; prior roles include VP of R&D at SimilarWeb. His expertise aligns with signals intelligence and tech from military service.
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• Alon Porat: Associated with Israeli Military Intelligence – Unit 8200 on professional profiles. He worked at SimilarWeb before co-founding ActiveFence.
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• Eyal Dykan (President/Co-Founder): The most senior military figure among them. He is a Colonel (Res.) with over 25 years in the IDF Intelligence Corps. Key roles included:
• Commander of an operational unit focused on psychological operations (PSYOPS) and influence warfare (2012–2015).
• Deputy Commander of the IDF’s Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Unit (2009–2012), involving covert operations and international collaboration.
Partnered with WEF, Disinfo Cloud, TSPA
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Main Repositories (from
github.com/ActiveFence)
● parlant-alice (Most active/relevant)
github.com/ActiveFence/parla…
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pypi.org/project/parlant-ali…
● bull (Archived)
github.com/ActiveFence/bull
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Fork of OptimalBits/bull (Node.js queue for distributed jobs). Archived.
● mtproto-core
github.com/ActiveFence/mtpro…
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Fork of a Telegram API (MTProto) JS client library for browser/Node.js.
● node-dogstatsd
github.com/ActiveFence/node-…
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Fork of a Node.js client for Datadog StatsD.
Caterpillar (Primary Open-Source Security Tool)
● Caterpillar (AI agent skills security scanner)
github.com/alice-dot-io/cate…
Related Developer/
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github.com/AgoraIO-Community…
● and iOS versions (showcases content moderation extensions).15
● NVIDIA