So, let me get this straight.....
Hezbollah gets thousands of its people scrambled by hacked pagers.
Then, the very next day, they get say "Well, we didn't see that coming. Let's start using another electronic wireless device (with a rechargeable battery whose supply chain we haven't analyzed) to communicate. There's nothing to worry about with those, right?"
If laptops and cellphones start killing people on Thursday and then Friday ..... I dunno...
#israel
@jurban
These specific devices were ordered after Oct 7th after Hizb'Allah and Hamas members were ordered to abandon their smartphones by the leader of IRGC (I think it was him) so Israel couldn't track communications...he told them to switch to pagers so they ordered a bunch...during transit after they ordered them, thats when they were intercepted and modified. They weren't the whole company's stock...just that order, which was supposedly a LARGE order.
@jurban
These walkies were a knockoff brand of ICOM walkies, which ICOM disavowed as being made in their factory in Asia, but what I'm gonna guess is they intercepted the order they placed, and replaced the contents with the knockoffs, that's a guess. the info I shared was regarding just the Pagers...If i read a reliable provenance on the Walkies I'll share it asap. 👍
@Usama_Backhair
Just how they got hacked is one layer of "interesting".
Just how Hezbollah failed to assess all of their similar assets is another level of "stupid" (or hubris).
Nothing is more secure than the lowest paid freight driver.
@EileenKCarpenter
It's the truth. That's why our government pushes to "overspend" on compensation for postal workers, this stuff is deadly serious and you need to deeply scrutinize and vet, as well as attract trustworthy candidates to that service.
It's not "a business shipping stuff", it's a secured part of our nation's essential communications system.
@jurban
Correction: It was Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hizb'Allah, who ordered their members to abandon their phones
"In February, Hassan Nasrallah directed Hezbollah fighters to get rid of their phones, saying they had been infiltrated by Israeli intelligence. He told his forces to break, bury or lock their phones in an iron box."
@Usama_Backhair @jurban Bet there's some very bad people missing an eye now, who'd like to bend his ear a little about that.
You know.
If he still has a mouth.
@Usama_Backhair @jurban
For all my ranting about how I don't like this business of blowing up things where normal people might be, I want to be clear, I don't have any sympathy for the Hezbollah people who made all this drama possible.
I hope this Spy Versus Spy bullshit at least managed to mess up some bad guys in the process. I bet it has.
@Usama_Backhair @jurban I'm not completely without a (morbid) sense of humor.
@Usama_Backhair
Interesting.
So, did they then say "you can trust those walkie-talkies 'cuz my cousin bought them on Amazon a few months ago"?