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It's certainly going to go down in the pagers of history.
It's certainly going to go down in the pagers of history.
Why not all of the above?Such an incredibly effective weapon of opportunity.
- Perhaps someone at Hez had discovered it just immediately prior and so Israel just initiated the kill chain command onto the network; or
- Hez was on the cusp of initiating an op and Israel decided to pre-empt it;
- it was ND by command line;
- 3rd party hackers
- Iran did it
So many possibilities!
- Scores injured: At least nine people were killed and 2,800 wounded in an attack that targeted pagers held by members of Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah across Lebanon on Tuesday, according to the country’s health minister. Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon was one of those injured, according to Iranian state media.
- Hospitals packed: At least 170 people injured are in critical condition, the health minister said, and many hospitals in southern Lebanon have exceeded capacity.
andKim Ghattas, a Lebanese journalist and contributing writer to The Atlantic magazine, told CNN that Hezbollah had recently “gone low tech” in an attempt to prevent more of its operatives from being assassinated.
“It was clearly a targeted attack by Israel against Hezbollah operatives who had gone low tech, because they have been the target of assassinations over the past 10 months. They’ve been instructed to dump their iPhones, get off the internet and disconnect their CCTVs,” Ghattas told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
So, did Israel set up a dummy operation in advance to supply encrypted pagers in Lebanon then start targeting Hezbollah smart phones so that they would switch to the pagers? If so....frickin' brilliant!The pagers that exploded were new and had been purchased by Hezbollah in recent months, a Lebanese security source has told CNN.
Did you try paging him?Was abduly85 around?
Not a techy but this is the only explanation that makes sense to my simple mind. I never carried the larger alpha-numeric type; just the smaller numeric models that took a single AA battery.So, did Israel set up a dummy operation in advance to supply encrypted pagers in Lebanon then start targeting Hezbollah smart phones so that they would switch to the pagers? If so....frickin' brilliant!
In particular, they may need to go back to old school analog methods like dead drops and one time pads to maintain secure comms.Beyond today's boom, this suggests they may now also have increased visibility on comm networks. That may be even more valuable than the psychological imimpact.
They may have to.In particular, they may need to go back to old school analog methods like dead drops and one time pads to maintain secure comms.
There had to be a ton of subterfuge, hijinks and shenanigans to get this to work. I will admit I smiled a bit when I read this and heard it on the news. My wife was probably wondering what the hell I was smiling about.I think it all started with someone asking the following question:
Q: "How can we prove unequivocally to the world that Hezbollah is working on orders from Iran?"
A: "Blow up their ambassador in an operation that blows up a large group of Hezbollah leaders through the technological tools that link them, and only them, all."
This op was just brilliant, whoever came up with the idea is genius.
This is like the plot progression of The Wire, except in reverse.In particular, they may need to go back to old school analog methods like dead drops and one time pads to maintain secure comms.
If Hamas, Hezbollah, or any group or person exploded electronic devices in Israel and killed children, it would be described by the entire Western media class as a horrific act of wanton evil sadistic terrorism. Israel does it and it's seen as an epic based move to be celebrated. There is no way that what Israel just pulled in Lebanon is not a war crime. It is 100% a war crime. It is an act of terror and attempting to justify it by saying the target was Hezbollah when they killed children, medics, doctors, civilians is not going to work. Horrific.
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If Hamas, Hezbollah, or any group or person exploded electronic devices in Israel and killed children, it would be described by the entire Western media class as a horrific act of wanton evil sadistic terrorism. Israel does it and it's seen as an epic based move to be celebrated. There is no way that what Israel just pulled in Lebanon is not a war crime. It is 100% a war crime. It is an act of terror and attempting to justify it by saying the target was Hezbollah when they killed children, medics, doctors, civilians is not going to work. Horrific.
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*HezbollahI thought all the pager carriers were Hamas or Hamas adjacent ?