5mo ago

Pagers explode across Lebanon in attack targeting Hezbollah members

www.cnn.com Pagers explode across Lebanon in attack targeting Hezbollah members: Live updates | CNN

Hundreds of people in Lebanon have been injured in an attack targeting the pagers of Hezbollah members, a Lebanese security source told CNN Tuesday.

This is a terrorist attack by Israel on a massive scale. They blew up countless numbers of people driving, meaning that cars lost control, shopping around children, etc.

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5mo ago

Pagers explode across Lebanon in attack targeting Hezbollah members

www.cnn.com /world/live-news/lebanon-pagers-attack-hezbollah/index.html

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https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1836179138220298558
if planting explosives in electronic devices and blowing them up in civilian areas killing and wounding indiscriminately is fine and in fact great, what's wrong with putting explosives in cars in Tel Aviv? Oh right, only genocidal occupiers are allowed to do murderous terrorism

90's to early 00's style attack. Still a deplorable way to strike.
- Interestingly, given just how compromised smart phones are at this point, a pager has now become a far safer means of communication.
  
  Well apparently not anymore
  
  Traditionally pagers use either FLEX or POCSAG protocols, both of which are fully unencrypted and have to broadcast everywhere with relatively high power... So safer is maybe a bit of a misnomer... But they also don't transmit anything so in terms of remote listening and location tracking, yes they are safer.

So did they just make bombs disguised inside pagers and hope that their enemies bought them instead of like, normal people and doctors and shit or??
- I'm guessing they managed to insert themselves into the supply chain and installed the bombs that way. It does look like it was fairly indiscriminate though.
- It’s a terror attack. If they didn’t want civilian casualties they wouldn’t have taken this outrageous route.
  
  Was it indiscriminate, like random civilians blew up from this? Or was it targeted via military equipment etc, thats what I'm askin I think
- Probably overloaded the battery with a firmware hack
  
  An alkaline AA battery?

This is terrorism, but it's ok because Israel is doing it to "bad guys".
- Something like that. I bet all those Hollywood brainwashed NPCs think this is funny, like they're watching an action movie. I'm afraid to read comments on the mainstream outlets because I will probably vomit.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/lebanon-pagers-attack-hezbollah#h_fae744b5f17886dd7ce2bec9ff9ab047
How was this pulled off? Here are the theories From CNN's Christian Edwards
Experts have shared two competing theories as to how hundreds of pagers could have exploded simultaneously.
One theory is that there was a cybersecurity breach, causing the pagers’ lithium batteries to overheat and detonate.
Another is that this was a “supply chain attack,” where the pagers were tampered with during the manufacturing and shipping process.
David Kennedy, a former US National Security Agency intelligence analyst, told CNN that the explosions seen in videos shared online appear to be “too large for this to be a remote and direct hack that would overload the pager and cause a lithium battery explosion.”
Kennedy said he found the second theory to be more plausible.
“It’s more likely that Israel had human operatives… in Hezbollah… The pagers would have been implanted with explosives and likely only to detonate when a certain message was received,” he said.
“The complexity needed to pull this off is incredible. It would have required many different intelligence components and execution. Human intelligence (HUMINT) would be the main method used to pull this off, along with intercepting the supply chain in order to make modifications to the pagers,” he added.

Smells like something IDF unit 8200 might have been involved with.

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