Comment by bewaretheirs

Comment by bewaretheirs 10 months ago

Hezbollah reportedly bans its members from carrying cell phones and has them carry pagers instead:

bluescrn 10 months ago

That was a mistake. If they'd gone for the thinnest smartphone they could buy, there'd be no chance of anybody hiding a small bomb inside it.

rdl 10 months ago

Assuming you aren't joking: Pagers are receive-only, which is why they'd use them in preference to cellphones, which transmit even when just idling to register on cells.

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- LinuxBender 10 months ago
  
  Pagers are receive-only
  This has not been true for some time. Pagers attach to a network in the same way a cell phone does. It is true they are more reliable in the receive only sense, as they can receive the broadcast message in the area they last attached to and the acknowledgment is not required to see the message but they do indeed transmit.
  
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  blantonl 10 months ago
  
  Not these pagers
  
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  rdl 10 months ago
  
  Yes, almost certainly HA was running a POCSAG network.
  
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kayodelycaon 10 months ago

With a cell phone, the bomb is conveniently express-shipped to you by F-16. Or thoughtfully hand-delivered by the Mossad Postal Service.

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bewaretheirs 10 months ago

Pagers are immune to a number of threats that two-way communications devices enable.

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aenis 10 months ago

Thats an interesting attack vector on its own. Who does not regularly carry a phone with them these days?