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Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

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Re: Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

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Post by tptacek »

colechristensen wrote: post #96
clueless wrote: post #66

so how does one verify that the battery in their iphone doesn't contain explosives?

X-Ray image compared to known X-Ray of the exact same model Bomb sniffing dog or chemical test of surfaces

Allegedly hidden well enough that a casual X-ray of the pager wouldn't have revealed it.

Re: Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

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Post by fortran77 »

I've seen photos posted on X and Telegram (of course I can't verify) of what look like Baofeng and Icom UHF hand-helds that have detonated. Not sure how they can get them to all blow up in unison--these aren't devices that can receive a digital message--as they apparently did at a funeral today.

Re: Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

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Post by tamimio »

Probably after the pagers yesterday, these Icom walkie-talkies were going to be discovered soon, leading to this subsequent trigger. Regardless, this is probably the first big worldwide event to bring the spotlight on supply chain attacks, and finally when we -nerds- talk about the possibility of bugging devices before delivering them or worse, detonating them remotely, it isn’t some sci-fi or conspiracy theory anymore.

Re: Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

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Post by mmastrac »

I guess they are taking a victory lap around yesterday's major embarrassment. I never thought that you could dismantle a terrorist organization so surgically by just booby-trapping comms devices.

This will certainly be made into a blockbuster movie in ten years.

I'll re-iterate my previous comment on this matter: this is an impressive supply-chain hack with absolutely oversized results, and you gotta hand it to them for pulling it off.

I think this will go down as being significantly more impressive than Stuxnet.

Re: Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

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Post by ineedasername »

realo wrote: post #40
technics256 wrote: post #13

A second day! I can't believe the full up and down owning of the communications supply chain. Makes Hezbollah look like a clown show.

Thousands of civilians injured... very few Hezbollah dead. Makes Israel look like a terrorist organization, IMHO.

There has been no statement or indication that the thousands of people injured were comprised in any significant proportion of civilians. Given that these pagers were purchased by Hezbollah directly and videos of their explosions show a minimal blast radius it is premature and, depending on motives, propagandistic to claim that the thousands of people injured were civilians.

Re: Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

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Post by xnx »

colechristensen wrote: post #101
vlovich123 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The mechanism of action is unclear at this time. I’ve seen it written that the explosives were part of PCBs with electronics that mimicked the original.

It was an addon board with explosives on it which was attached to the existing normal circuit board.

Was there enough empty space in the device for this? Were other components removed or miniaturized?
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