Comment by Bluestein

Many questions remain, but, also, one: If Mossad had the capability to pull off such a complex supply chain fiesta here, could they not as certainly hack the firmware to intercept all traffic? (Now that Hezbollah is alledged to be using them to communicate?)

Maybe they did, and - at this point - decided that detonating them was preferable to having the asset - and whatever information it was yielding ...

... which is worrying.-

PS. There's talk of this being a "use it or lose it" kind of scenario, with the pagers being close to compromised.-