Comment by zhengyi13

Comment by zhengyi13 10 months ago

4 replies

Pagers don't have GPS devices embedded in them.

Apps (some more or less than others) represent a target for a nation state to pursue for information, graph analysis, bugging, etc.

roywiggins 10 months ago

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.

jameshart 10 months ago

Pagers don’t have GPS devices embedded in them - that you know of.

If you can’t control your supply chain then that isn’t guaranteed.

After all, most pagers don’t contain explosive charges either.

netsharc 10 months ago

Even dumb phones can be tracked by antenna triangulation, and I wouldn't be surprised if Israeli hackers are inside Lebanese phone networks...