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Noteworthy News
RE: Noteworthy News
More Lebanese pagers detonated today per the NYT.
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I withdraw my earlier speculation about faulty pagers.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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Today it was mobile radios - walkie talkies - that went boom

ETA - the BBC is reporting speculatively that Hezbollah may have figured out that their comms devices were compromised and that Israel was faced with a "use it or lose it" situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0oSFDDe3Oo
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(Yesterday at 1:43 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(Yesterday at 1:16 am)Jackalope Wrote: Burner you just bought at the corner market, land line, dead drop, who knows?  It's effectively a one way short messaging system.

Some vulnerabilities there too.

Sure, but compared to the capabilities of and attack surface of a modern cell phone?
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(Yesterday at 9:40 pm)Jackalope Wrote:
(Yesterday at 1:43 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Some vulnerabilities there too.

Sure, but compared to the capabilities of and attack surface of a modern cell phone?

Yeah, the follow-on attack targeted them this morning.

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Pagers Tuesday.
Walkie Talkies Wednesday
Homing pigeons Thursday?
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