Comment by sushid
Why did the Hezbollah even leverage beepers in the first place? As in why not just use telegram or signal or some other app of choice?
Why did the Hezbollah even leverage beepers in the first place? As in why not just use telegram or signal or some other app of choice?
Even a dumbphone with the GPS physically removed is going to be a lot easier to target than a one-way pager, since they are always chatting with the cell towers.
So that Israel couldn't track their locations via cell networks. Sure you could use Signal or w/e but it's the cell IDs and knowing where people are that was the issue. The pagers do far less, if any, two way communication so it's not likely to give away location data.