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#103The videos I've seen definitely look like it was more than a battery explosion - very high energy...
Wondering if the pagers were intercepted and implanted with heat-sensitive explosive?
The NSA has planted custom chips/firmware inside cisco routers after intercepting them - it's not a large jump to go to explosives inside pagers.
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#105I read somewhere that these were likely Motorola devices. Does that mean they are complicit in adding explosives to their pagers (wtf?) or is Mossad conducting supply chain attacks on such a massive scale? How do they ensure only the right pagers explode? Or did they randomly blow up a bunch of innocent pager users?
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#106It's absurd that this was flagged and pushed off the front page. Either it was a supply chain attack with explosives installed, or this was a hack that caused battery explosion. Either way this is extremely relevant to Hacker News.
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#107So either this was planned long enough ago to replace a large number of devices over time, or communication about a larger order has been provided to the enemy and fulfilled without suspicion. Either way, that sounds like a crazy infiltration effort. Also, we can assume that anything sent to those pagers so far has been forwarded to Israel and now that channel is burned, right?
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#108So no one has a credible source on how and why the exploded? Because the mostly likely answer is they were intercepted and rigged with explosives
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#110newer reports saying 1000s not 100s https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/17/middle-ea...
> More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics The CNN title implies that only Hezbollah members were targeted were reality seems different. It's crazy a country is capable of doing a "special security operation" on civilians of another country without any international sanctions.
If it was targeting pagers used for Hezbollah's internal communication then it would be justified, no?