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any indication which brand(s) of pagers were in use?
I saw a speculation on r/lebanon: https://www.gapollo.com.tw/rugged-pager-ar924/ I can't find the link now, but it was based on an image of the back of burned pager. Edit: wayback machine link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240529091558/https://www.gapol...
You're telling me nobody in Hezbollah watched The Wire?
This hack is the best argument against network-connected electric vehicles that there is. Imagine the same, but with tens of thousands of Teslas.
I don't think it would be quite the same as in explosive ordinance put into a device but it is very similar in that a mass hack could use the navigation system to target pedestrians and calculate the speed required to plow through them without losing control to maximize victim count. All that would be required in another remote hack as has been demonstrated on live highways in the past [1] combined with some form of…
Was going to ask how common pagers were, but suppose still used by emergency services etc and especially in warzones of questionable cell network reliability
Maybe a dumb question, but I wonder if this was a software attack or IL was able to modify the physical pagers that are issued during Hezbollah onboarding. If this was a pure software attack, are only pagers susceptible? Or are we unknowingly carrying around bombs in our pocket, waiting for the counterattack?
If the description of "exploding" and "tearing [a] bag to shreds" are accurate then it has to be a physical modification of the pagers, lithium ion batteries don't explode with a lot of force when they go up.
It is indeed not the kind of explosion I would expect to see from lithium ion. (Those usually are a lot more flame-y at least the ones I have seen so far.). But I'm not an expert.
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From the hospital (NSFW): https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1836052147646955935
I am very surprised Hezbollah didn't think of supply chain security and didn't do the most cursor inspection of these devices. The post mortem would be very interesting on this one.