Middle East Paggers/Exploding Pagers

[Sergeant Wilson]

34 minutes ago, Michael W said:

Looks like they've done it again. 

More "communications devices" blowing up. 

 

[beefybake]

21 hours ago, ICTChris said:

One thing that you might say though is that if the Israelis could do something like this, couldn't they have used this information more valuably?  If they could implant something into every device or someone control every device could they not used it to track senior commanders and use drone strikes or bombs?  ALso, if you can blow up the pagers surely you can intercept information contained within them, would that not be more valuable?  

This is a further tactic to provoke a full regional war, where the various powers, US, UK etc.., would be drawn in to further support Israel.   So it's not really a question of intellligence gathering.

[Claudia Gentile]

Explosions reported from homes, cars, motorcycles and solar panels now, too.

[Barry Ferguson's Hat]

My shares in baked bean cans on a string are skyrocketing.

Edited Wednesday at 15:39 by Barry Ferguson's Hat

[Sergeant Wilson]

"Stick that taboulleh in the microwave doll.

Naw, you stick it in the microwave. "

[Claudia Gentile]

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In a statement, Gold Apollo identified the other company as the Hungary-based BAC Consulting. The company is authorized to use Gold Apollo's logo for product sales in certain regions, “but the design and manufacturing of the products are entirely handled by BAC,” the statement said.

[Venti]

Reminds of the Paisley b*****d Butler in Law Abiding Citizen.

[Wee-Bey]

Reports of emergency services radios and devices in electronic retail stores bowing up. 

Seems increasingly likely that far from being a targeted attack on Hezbollah, they've just stuffed explosives in all manner of communication devices entering Lebanon and then detonated them.

[Freedom Farter]

Not sharing the above to be the morality police for the thread or anything. I actually think jokes and serious perspectives sit alongside each other well. 

On the Hungary link, that's not at all surprising.

[Wee-Bey]

The timing is interesting, why 'blow', for want of a better word, a very valuable espionage asset like this now? It's a big one off type move and you can be sure there's plenty folk in Iran right now opening the back of their phone to have a look. Talk of this being a prelude to the invasion of Southern Lebanon. 

Chinese electronics manufacturers looking at that Middle East market right now.

[ICTChris]

8 minutes ago, Cheese said:

The timing is interesting, why 'blow', for want of a better word, a very valuable espionage asset like this now? It's a big one off type move and you can be sure there's plenty folk in Iran right now opening the back of their phone to have a look. Talk of this being a prelude to the invasion of Southern Lebanon. 

Chinese electronics manufacturers looking at that Middle East market right now.

You'd imagine that this attack will make quite a few governments sit up and take notice of the potential risks of who supplies their telecommunications equipment.  Huawei infrastructure is already being removed from UK, US and some EU infrastructure, under threat of economic sanctions.

I don't think that the Chinese made their routers and 5G masts out of TNT of course, but these attacks will certainly focus minds.

[Venti]

Are Samsung Galaxy Note7's classified as WMDs?

[Wee-Bey]

1 hour ago, ICTChris said:

You'd imagine that this attack will make quite a few governments sit up and take notice of the potential risks of who supplies their telecommunications equipment.  Huawei infrastructure is already being removed from UK, US and some EU infrastructure, under threat of economic sanctions.

I don't think that the Chinese made their routers and 5G masts out of TNT of course, but these attacks will certainly focus minds.

I'd much prefer that minds were focused on the fact that thanks to Israel, every other bunch of f**king headbangers knows that it's now possible to plunge a country into chaos with one intercepted shipping container and that there's the possibility that there is still remotely triggerable IEDs hidden inside consumer devices and we don't know how many there are and how many haven't detonated yet.

 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

2 hours ago, Claudia Gentile said:

Explosions reported from homes, cars, motorcycles and solar panels now, too.

They better not start f**king with my 8 track and CB radio.

[coprolite]

2 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

"Stick that taboulleh in the microwave doll.

Naw, you stick it in the microwave. "

Why would they microwave a salad? Mental. No wonder Israel wants them dead

[Florentine_Pogen]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/pager-and-walkie-talkie-attacks-on-hezbollah-were-audacious-and-carefully-planned

"It may be years before the full story is told of how coordinated explosions of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah was orchestrated. But, even without Israel publicly admitting responsibility, it is clear that the attack must have been carefully planned – however uncertain its consequences.

Experts generally believe a small mount of stable explosive was carefully implanted into each sabotaged device. Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University, says: “There wouldn’t need to be much explosive, as proximity to a human body means it would cause injury even if it was a few grams.”

[eez-eh]

I’m sure there were Hamas terrorists hiding inside the walkie talkies.

[Sergeant Wilson]

2 hours ago, coprolite said:

Why would they microwave a salad? Mental. No wonder Israel wants them dead

Just out the fridge, takes the cold edge off! (Note to self, more research required.)

[Freedom Farter]

I think that means the initial plan was to detonate them immediately prior to a full invasion of Lebanon.

[MazzyStar]

28 minutes ago, Freedom Farter said:

I think that means the initial plan was to detonate them immediately prior to a full invasion of Lebanon.

The US (specifically the Democratic Party) facilitating an act of terrorism, but yet for months public discourse and social media has been inundated with supporters of the democrats telling everyone how much worse the republicans would be and that Biden is simply “powerless” to do anything to hold Israel to account.