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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."
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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.
Israeli tech that’s so revered is mostly just black mirror shit like this. Why it’s necessary for humanity, I don’t know.
Israelis are the biggest cowards on the planet. Just a nation of straight up cowards. Hope they like the retaliation.
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.
Well IOF has no balls so they can’t be retaliated against.
This is a test run for doing this same trick with smart phones down the line
Absolutely frightening. This technology will eventually trickle both abroad and even be encouraged to use by US police forces.
geez I forgot to actually add the reuters link :/ edited now, sorry comrade I’m sort of new on this platform lol
Wait, they can explode pagers? I knew it was a good thing we stopped using those! /s
they can hack all sorts of things.
The hacking isn’t exactly surprising- but what the hell is up with the explosions? Honestly that is the real head-scratcher for me.
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.
These pagers don’t even use lithium, they run on normal AAA batteries. There was tampering along the supply chain.
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.
Most likely hijacked a shipment and replaced it with bombs.
