cachvico 3 days ago

With a statement like that one wonders if Hezbollah leadership itself has been infiltrated.

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  • kspacewalk2 3 days ago

    Israel has an intelligence agency that's generally recognized to be quite competent. I'm sure it would have taken them approximately 5 minutes to learn from their many spies that a new form of communications is being used.

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    • andyetandyet 3 days ago

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      • gojomo 3 days ago

        Not really: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-h...

        They just didn't realize how real this particular plan was. It's quite likely Hamas is regularly bluffing similar attacks in many potentially-compromised channels. If they then see Israel react, they've received info about Israel's capabilities & tactics – and maybe even ways to misdirect Israeli forces with future feints. And any real plans may stay hidden amongst dozens/hundreds of other "false alarms".

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  • tptacek 3 days ago

    The IRGC itself has clearly and spectacularly infiltrated; read the details of the Haniyeh attack. So, yeah, at this point I don't think anyone in the IRGC network can trust anybody else. The messaging here is pretty intense.

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  • grotorea 3 days ago

    Theoretically, pagers are simpler devices, meaning it would be much easier in principle to analyse both hardware and software to check for issues, unlike a mainstream phone OS which has a bigger software attack area and can have at least some zero day attacks known to a state level actor like Israel.

    Although, if it really was explosive inside the pagers it seems Hezbollah didn't do this.

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  • axlee 3 days ago

    I mean Israel is behind Pegasus, so it's not exactly a secret that they can get into any cellphone. Israel didn't need to infiltrate Hezbollah, they just needed publicity.

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    • londons_explore 3 days ago

      You can also find out what your target is using, find some exploits in it and publicize them, then offer a super good deal on an upgraded model.

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jameshart 3 days ago

If you’ve figured out how to get explosives into pagers, the next question is how do you get your enemy to buy a bunch of new pagers from you.

They have to want new pagers in a hurry.

So you just need to convince them that their phones are all already compromised.

Note that this does not require that their phones actually be compromised.

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  • doubleorseven 3 days ago

    Exactly. But this buyer is not a regular buyer, he is not getting a tracking number and refreshing some random website to see where it's shipment is. The buyer must have been with the goods from a point before it reached its destinated country. There are so many plays that had to play here in order to orcestrate this. Should make a really good heist movie, just with a different prize at the end.

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  • detourdog 3 days ago

    You find where the pagers are coming from. They probably had a supply chain going to cycle through pagers. 2,700 pagers being replaced regularly is an easy target.

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