Pagers Exploding

[CUTiger1977]

 

[CUTiger1977]

Always ahead Family Guy/Simpsons

 

[fatpiggy]

Wow - that is pretty bad ass.
Will make the terrorists think twice about how they are communicating. Wonder how they infiltrated the communications and got this done?

 

[fatpiggy]

 

[PAWrocka]

Man … that is some next level MI6 sh*t right there. Awesome!

My first thought …. “They still make pagers?”

 

[fatpiggy]

Two scenarios i can think of here

1) Mosaad sold pre-made pagers with bombs inside them. They worked as intended but had planted explosives in them. Israel tracked the phones and once enough were initiated and being used the then attacked.

2) They sent a virus to the phones causing their batteries to overheat and explode. The implications of this are very scary. This means technology exists to blow up phones in airplanes etc. We all carry them with us all the time. And if they can do it to a pager they can do it to a cell phone.

I've seen both ways discussed so not sure which one it was or possibly even another method?

 

[BionicTiger]

Two scenarios i can think of here

1) Mosaad sold pre-made pagers with bombs inside them. They worked as intended but had planted explosives in them. Israel tracked the phones and once enough were initiated and being used the then attacked.

2) They sent a virus to the phones causing their batteries to overheat and explode. The implications of this are very scary. This means technology exists to blow up phones in airplanes etc. We all carry them with us all the time. And if they can do it to a pager they can do it to a cell phone.

I've seen both ways discussed so not sure which one it was or possibly even another method?

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These were all new pagers from a recent shipment. I’m assuming they had plastic explosives inserted before shipment. I doubt they could induce a battery explosion. Motorola pagers - don’t know exact model here - probably have Ni-MH batteries not Li ion, and they would be significantly less likely to explode.

Either way, pretty wild. Israel is very good at this type of thing. They’ve done it in the past. Cell phones, landline phones, car headrests, Spare tires. Think they probably saw an opportunity here. After their COS was killed in the middle of Beirut several weeks back, Hezbollah switched to heavy pager use instead of carrying phones (or having them on all the time). Assuming israel took the opportunity to “fix” the pagers. The subtle genius that’s being overlooked here is the amount of intel falling into Israel’s lap right now. They’re getting tons of photos and video footage - off social media and open source platforms - that will help to identify Hezbollah operatives/members going forward.

Another interesting note in the last 24 hours, you had multiple USAF EC-130s (C-130 specially kitted for electronic warfare functions) off the coast of Lebanon. Most likely there for some other reason, unrelated to this, but interesting nonetheless.

 

[fatpiggy]

 

[fatpiggy]

Wow - This is tough to watch.

 

[fatpiggy]

This. Pandora's box was just opened. Even if this was through the supply chain, the idea has been hatched.