New Kind of Warfare

~ Clarissa

Let’s hope nobody can hack our cellphones.

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  2. “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. 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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          1. 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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    3. 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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  3. 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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    1. 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. 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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          1. “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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            1. 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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              1. 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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              6. 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. “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. 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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    1. 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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