"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."
This is a test run for doing this same trick with smart phones down the line
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.
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.
Lithium batteries can be made to explode under the right conditions.
There’s one of two things going on here:
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The pagers were perfectly normal off the shelf pagers, maybe with some minor flaw to safety or charging systems but nothing that was intentionally introduced. In this case the zionists found a way to hack the pagers (or potentially cell towers to broadcast something that causes the condition) to induce conditions leading to a battery fire/explosion. I don’t know enough about lithium batteries to say whether it’s suspicious so many of them exploded instead of catching fire though reports say at least some people noticed them getting strangely hot and discarded them which does suggest lithium battery overload.
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The zionists knew about their use of pagers and in some way intercepted or replaced shipment of the ones they received with a batch that could be triggered to explode. For plausible deniability I’m guessing it was still a battery explosion rather than micro-explosives but we’ll have to see if any more info comes out.
Either one is problematic for Hezbollah’s communications though at least 2 can be addressed by attempting to do more secure sourcing (e.g. getting Iran to get a direct shipment through an intermediary from a Chinese firm and securing that to be shipped directly to Lebanon). If it’s 1 there’s not much they can do other than do an investigation on exactly how it happened and contact the manufacturers and hope one of them responds by offering a fixed model not vulnerable to this technique.
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.
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.
