"But the senior Lebanese source said the devices had been modified by Israel's spy service "at the production level".
"The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It's very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner," the source said.
The source said 3,000 of the pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives."
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/israel-lebanon-planted-explosives-pagers-hezbollah-injured-killed-4615361
Posted by SuperConfuseMan
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What does this mean for aeroplane travel?
There’s no room in the back cause my car’s a two seater, my phone was blowing up like a Hezbollah beeper.
I think the key word here being *”At the production level”*
So what happens now to Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers of American brands from China, or vice-versa? or If I’m a Ukrainian buyer of DJI commercial drones, how can I know those arent, or more importantly, ***will not be*** rigged?
who’s to say that rigged commercial drones, cellphones, batteries, cameras won’t end up in ships bound for Long Beach instead of Yemen.
“We’ll only use this technology against bad actors” – who is a bad actor according to whom?
This is going to spark a massive over haul of supply chain, vendor relationships, and the like.
Apparently the Israelis wanted to wait to set them off, but they were tipped off that some Hezbollah had discovered their machines were tampered with, so they just did it?
Regardless of your feelings on Israel, this was an incredible psychological victory.
This is one of the greatest massive precision strike in history. Not only the amount of individuals that were targeted is in the thousands, but also almost everyone that were hit was an enemy combatant. Sure, a few civilians were also hit, but that was inevitable and we’re far from the strikes in Gaza.
There’s actually three possibilities:
1. Modified when it was manufactured. Despite the Lebanese claim, this is highly unlikely as the factory which produced the pagers can be traced. Anyway, producers don’t always know who is the customer of each batch of products.
2. Modification en route. This means Israel intercepted the shipment and then tampered with the devices. This is possible but delays and repackaging might raise suspicions. Of course, this is less of an issue if the pagers were unwittingly bought from an undercover agent.
3. Modification of another batch of devices which were then swapped with Hezbollah’s order. This scenario has less risk of being discovered, but requires knowledge of Hezbollah’s order.
Either way, it’s clear Hezbollah had been infiltrated. Now the twist is, those who knew about the plot probably avoided the explosions by staying away from their pagers, and could now be promoted to fill the ranks since they remain able-bodied. Of course, Hezbollah knows this, so the injured might be suspicious of members who escaped without a scratch. We could be witnessing the collapse of Hezbollah as a major player in Lebanon.
Just wondering about the possibility of bad batch of pagers, is that not a possibility given how everyone is crediting israel