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"At least eight people were killed and 2,750 others including Hezbollah fighters, medics and Iran’s envoy to Beirut were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources and the Lebanese health minister said…

Lebanese internal security forces said a number of wireless communication devices were detonated across Lebanon, especially in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold. The pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months, three security sources said."

    • l0tusc0bra@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      geez I forgot to actually add the reuters link :/ edited now, sorry comrade I’m sort of new on this platform lol

        • l0tusc0bra@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Yes, I’m curious as well as to how this exploit happened. Supply chain contamination? An extremely specific firmware vulnerability that was discovered via research and saved for later? Keep in mind that the mossad helped make Pegasus w/ the NSA so they likely have all sorts of sinister APTs to terrorize us with.

        • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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          2 months ago

          They weren’t hacked. A Li-ion battery doesn’t explode like that. It might flash and burn and injure you but those explosions are… explosive in nature. I had read some comments elsewhere saying these pagers were manufactured by some shell company in Taiwan. Idk how true that is but in one way or another, these pagers very likely had actual explosives put in them. It’s way easier to rig up a small explosive to go off at the ring of a certain number then to “hack” it to cause the battery to somehow explode in a way those batteries don’t actually explode.

    • Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      Absolutely frightening. This technology will eventually trickle both abroad and even be encouraged to use by US police forces.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    I’m seeing a lot of “jokes” about Hezbollah fighters havng their testicles blown off. It always seem to come back to sexual violence doesn’t it? They’re trying to geld an entire country.

  • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Bots/shills/agents on reddit and specifically r/worldnews are trying to set the narrative that the attack hurt only Hezbollah members. Their intent is so obvious, yet thousands will fall for.it.