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New Kind of Warfare

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Let’s hope nobody can hack our cellphones.

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  1. methylethyl Avatar
    methylethyl

    Reason # 73 to NOT CARRY YOUR CELL PHONE IN YOUR POCKET.

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  2. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    “hope nobody can hack our cellphones”

    Surely. On the other hand what I’ve read is that Israel probably managed to compromise the supply chain and the pagers had an explosive device/substance that could be detonated remotely when the time came (ie today).

    I have no idea if that’s true though it seems more…. realisitc than finding a way to make pagers explode remotely.

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    1. methylethyl Avatar
      methylethyl

      Guess it’s easy to identify operatives now: they’re the ones with the hip injuries.

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    2. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      I hope so.

      I also hope we have full control of our supply chain.

      OK, never mind.

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      1. methylethyl Avatar
        methylethyl

        “full control of our supply chain”

        Hahaha!

        That’s funny.

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          I was trying. 🙂 Thank you for explaining the social security issue. With your permission, I’ll memorize it and retell it in one of my Ukrainian appearances. There, at least, people are likely to listen and pay attention.

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            methylethyl

            It’s more complicated than I’ve written, but that’s the bones of it. Nobody our age or younger should be counting on it to still pay out, when we reach retirement age.

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      methylethyl

      Shoot, if you can explode a pager remotely, with or without being involved in the supply chain… imagine what you could do with a laptop, an e-bike (the rental ones around here are unlocked via smartphone app, so they’ve got some connectivity), an electric car…

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      1. Clarissa Avatar
        Clarissa

        We have an author of horror stories among us. Maybe he’ll be inspired to write something.

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    Anonymous

    This is an absolute bonkers attack. There is no way a simple pager battery could cause that much damage. There has got to be more to this.

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      Anonymous

      Also interesting that no one is calling it “terrorism”. Because, as usual, it’s only a crime when our opponents do it.

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      1. Clarissa Avatar
        Clarissa

        Calling, calling, calling. It’s all about what you call something. Forget what actually happened and fixate on words. Because words are the only reality.

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          Anonymous

          So if a couple hundred electronic devices randomly explodes in Tel Aviv — remotely controlled from Lebanon or Tehran — this will be honky dory?

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            Anonymous

            explode*

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          Clarissa

          Good news! Somebody is calling it terrorism:

          https://x.com/akoz33/status/1836489206421688536?t=7e-ODN5mdjdyk-GSG65pfQ&s=19

          Congratulations on being on the right side of history together with the modern Goebbels.

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      2. cliff arroyo Avatar
        cliff arroyo

        Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and among their primary targets have been Lebanese Christians one of the most high achieving groups in the modern world…

        https://x.com/Josephsopholaos/status/1836138099296096647

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        1. methylethyl Avatar
          methylethyl

          If there were any evidence that the attack had targeted civilians, I’d still be concerned. But I have seen no such reports yet.

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          1. cliff arroyo Avatar
            cliff arroyo

            “any evidence that the attack had targeted civilians”

            The rule is: All Israelis are soldiers and legitimate targets.

            No Muslims in the area are soldiers so all are illegitimate targets.

            They never put it in those terms but it’s clear that that’s the criteria being used.

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              methylethyl

              Yeah. It’s the Magic Terrorist game. Everybody not an Israeli is a totally innocent civilian right up until they shoot up a music festival or blow up in a shopping mall– and *even then* we are supposed to believe that they were so oppressed that like biting dogs they just couldn’t help themselves, were doing it in “self defense” and it isn’t really their fault.

              But at the same time, we’re supposed to believe that all Israelis are evil oppressors from birth and deserve whatever violence is inflicted on them.

              It’s an incredibly tedious contortionist act.

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                Anonymous

                This is quite a contortionist dance to excuse indiscriminate bombing. I like how we suddenly KNOW without an iota of doubt that everyone with the devices and those around them are Hezbollah militants. Well done!

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              2. Clarissa Avatar
                Clarissa

                It’s OK, I’ve already read it in the original Russian. I don’t need a translation.

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                Anonymous

                1984 is here: https://x.com/gobloid3/status/1836437489831055659?t=qVyoDciiJXMPZ3N5c-f-pg&s=19

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              4. Clarissa Avatar
                Clarissa

                One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, rather.

                Is it too much to ask not to link to obvious crazies from my blog?

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              5. methylethyl Avatar
                methylethyl

                “Indiscriminate”

                Please explain.

                Because from here it looks pretty dang targeted.

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              6. Clarissa Avatar
                Clarissa

                I was away from the news but now I’m seeing what everybody is talking about.

                I still don’t understand the mechanism and what’s needed to use this against Russia.

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    2. cliff arroyo Avatar
      cliff arroyo

      “no way a simple pager battery could cause that much damage”

      What seems most likely is that Israelis intercepted the pagers and placed explosives in them that could be set off at the right time.

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      1. methylethyl Avatar
        methylethyl

        https://x.com/hahussain/status/1836409495116779647

        If true, I find the detail here that it’s “older” devices, fascinating.

        I can think of two scenarios here:

        1. Some loophole existed in the workings of older devices that could be exploited remotely.
        2. The organization, for whatever reason, was buying large shipments of secondhand devices– for cost savings, or for security reasons (how old?)– perhaps they are less trackable (this seems to have been the logic behind the telephone lines in the gaza tunnels– if it’s not attached to the internet, it’s harder to get remote access to it). But, this would make it vulnerable to, say, an intel front setting up as a dealer of bulk secondhand pagers/radios on ebay.

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    cliff arroyo

    And a new wave of explosions in Lebanon, this time in Hezbollah (ie ‘the party of God’) walkie talkies and other devices….

    https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1836412256092881005

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    1. methylethyl Avatar
      methylethyl

      Yeah, I’m gonna go with: they were buying used merch, and their supply was compromised. If it were possible to remote-detonate *any* old walkie-talkie, somebody would have sued the manufacturer by now.

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