More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources told Reuters.
Hezbollah vows to punish Israel after pager explosions across Lebanon
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... Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding nearly 3,000 others who included fighters and Iran's envoy to Beirut.
Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary condemned the late afternoon detonation of the pagers -- handheld devices that Hezbollah and others in Lebanon use to send messages -- as an "Israeli aggression". Hezbollah said Israel would receive "its fair punishment" for the blasts. ...
Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in the belief they could evade Israeli location tracking, two sources familiar with the group's operations told Reuters earlier this year. A pager is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays messages. ...
In one instance, closed-circuit surveillance video carried by regional broadcasters showed a person paying at a grocery store as what appeared to be a small handheld device placed next to the cashier exploded. ...
The casualties included Hezbollah fighters who are the sons of top officials from the armed group, two security sources told Reuters. One of those killed was the son of a Hezbollah member of the Lebanese parliament, Ali Ammar, they said.
"This is not a security targeting of one, two or three people. This is a targeting of an entire nation," senior Hezbollah official Hussein Khalil said while paying his condolences for Ammar's son.
Lebanese broadcaster Al Jadeed cited Ammar as promising consequences. "We will deal with the enemy in the language it understands," he added. ...
Exploding Pagers in Lebanon Spur Theories on Sabotage Method
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... From the moment pagers began exploding across Lebanon Tuesday, theories began to circulate on how devices considered outmoded in much of the world were turned into dangerous weapons that killed several people and wounded almost 3,000.
As Lebanon accused Israel of engineering the attack aimed at Hezbollah militants, much of the debate centered on the possibility that the supply chain for the retro devices had been compromised. One prevailing idea was that the pagers had been engineered so that their batteries would heat up until the devices exploded.
Overheating of the batteries indicated "foul play," Lebanon's Telecommunications Minister Johnny Corm told Bloomberg.
But one cybersecurity expert, Robert Graham, dismissed that theory. He said on X that "making batteries do anything more than burn is very hard and implausible. Far more plausible is that somebody bribed the factory to insert the explosives."
Among the other theories was that an electronic signal triggered the explosions.
"If true, I suspect it was an intentional physical defect enabled by cyber" or a radio frequency signal, said Mark Montgomery, a retired admiral and executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
Hezbollah's Al-Manar television showed what it said were images of Motorola pagers that were being used before the attack. "These pagers were detonated with high-tech by the Israeli enemy," Hezbollah lawmaker Ibrahim Mousawi told the group's TV network.
Motorola Solutions Inc. didn't immediately respond to Bloomberg's requests for comment.
Supply-Chain Deployment' ...
They're saying it was done by a Mossad agent named Moti Rola & his Asian partner Mr. Sam Sung.
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@#52 ... Using a cell phone for geolocation is something that I suspect even Iran has the technology for nowadays. ...
Iran?
Geolocation via a cell phone is not even a country-level aberration nowadays.
When you go into a department store, your cell-phone is being tracked, looking at the areas you visit and how long you stay in those areas.
How Retail Stores Track You Using Your Smartphone (and How to Stop It) (2013)
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That article was from 10 years ago. The stores have gotten better at it since then, imo.
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