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Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

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Post by ceejayoz »

flyinglizard wrote: post #200
einszwei wrote: post #196

From Israel's perspective, this supply chain attack was undoubtedly a clever move, but I can't help but wonder about its long-term consequences. Although it was aimed at harming Israel's adversaries, third-party countries may now hesitate to involve Israel in their supply chains. There's also the risk that other major producers could replicate this tactic, potentially leading to further escalation in the region or be…

It's said those devices were Iranian made. What makes you think Israel has any overt involvement in the supply chain to begin with?

> It's said those devices were Iranian made.

Made, or provided by?

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Post by tptacek »

flyinglizard wrote: post #200
einszwei wrote: post #196

From Israel's perspective, this supply chain attack was undoubtedly a clever move, but I can't help but wonder about its long-term consequences. Although it was aimed at harming Israel's adversaries, third-party countries may now hesitate to involve Israel in their supply chains. There's also the risk that other major producers could replicate this tactic, potentially leading to further escalation in the region or be…

It's said those devices were Iranian made. What makes you think Israel has any overt involvement in the supply chain to begin with?

Probably because of Israel's demonstrated infiltration of IRGC operations inside of Iran? Just a guess.

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Post by flohofwoe »

sbeam wrote: post #179

If we try to do what we are best at here at HN, let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it. It immediately reminded me of Stuxnet, which also from a technical perspective was quite interesting. I already wonder if this was anything that was planted in the devices perviously, or if the ones responsible had similar devices, and managed reverse engineer them and craft a payload to them, that could be sent…

First thing I thought of were the exploding PCs from Die Hard 4. Back then it was such a ridiculous thing, but here we are ;)

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Post by frabbit »

sbeam wrote: post #179

If we try to do what we are best at here at HN, let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it. It immediately reminded me of Stuxnet, which also from a technical perspective was quite interesting. I already wonder if this was anything that was planted in the devices perviously, or if the ones responsible had similar devices, and managed reverse engineer them and craft a payload to them, that could be sent…

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Post by mytailorisrich »

diggan wrote: post #14

Not sure why this was flagged, it's certainly a novel way of striking the enemy, regardless of the political undertones. Reuters seems to have a bit more details, and is probably a bit less biased than current URL (timesofisrael.com): https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-m...

What's definitely novel is the scale, perhaps not the tactic, which has been used many times before (speculative assumption being that the devices were tempered with)

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Post by busterarm »

lm28469 wrote: post #86

It wouldn't be a first https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash > Shin Bet agents gave him a cell phone and told him it was bugged so they could listen in on his conversations.[17] They did not tell him that it also contained 15 grams of RDX explosive

Cell phones were much bigger in 1996. You would have a hard time with that with phones today, but pagers are still viable.

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

sbeam wrote: post #179

If we try to do what we are best at here at HN, let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it. It immediately reminded me of Stuxnet, which also from a technical perspective was quite interesting. I already wonder if this was anything that was planted in the devices perviously, or if the ones responsible had similar devices, and managed reverse engineer them and craft a payload to them, that could be sent…

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