Question for the electrical engineers here....

[mcdawg22]

One of the injured is the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon. Now what was he doing with one of those Hezbollah pagers......

 

[Xenomorph]

Instantly one of the most infamous acts of espionage in history.

 

[L4Dawg]

Instantly one of the most infamous acts of espionage in history.

For sure.

 

[drexeldog23]

Imagine the calls coming into that pager’s customer service hotline

"we are sorry there are 13,163 people in the que before you"

 

[HailStout]

The 90’s called…..for revenge

 

[drexeldog23]

the message said "deez nutz"

 

[OopsICroomedmypants]

These pagers were manufactured for this purpose. Can't wait to read how and where it was done.

From a good source in the region, I understand these pagers are used throughout Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq.

Think about where our electronics are manufactured and be ready for an adversarial Chinese government to attempt a similar stunt on us and or allies at some point.

Maybe I need to quit sleeping with my phone near my bed. I had a Samsung battery swell up on me one time and it was hot as fire. At the time I never knew they could explode or catch fire. Israel probably just looked into how cell phone manufacturers design them to malfunction over time and heat up to wear the battery out. They were probably thinking "lets just have the pager install 10,000 updates immediately upon our signal".

 

[OopsICroomedmypants]

One of the injured is the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon. Now what was he doing with one of those Hezbollah pagers......

He was spying on Hezbollah****

 

[OopsICroomedmypants]

I shouldn't have laughed at that. Dammit man!

 

[TNDawg1]

Was it a few months ago they detonated a “gift” that had been sitting around in some terrorist leader‘s second home. They play chess…

 

[HailStout]

The last thing they saw:

 

[Perd Hapley]

Israeli counterterrorism is the best in the world. I would guess they infiltrated a supplier and installed an explosive charge of Semtex in either single, targeted pagers, or blanketed with many, and then traced movements and/or communications to decide which pagers should should be detonated.

I don’t think they had to do much screening to see which ones needed to be detonated. It’s fairly safe to say that anyone who buys a pager in 2024 is 100% a terrorist….or a drug dealer.

 

[Fritz!]

 

[BIGDAWG44]

Delete

 

[Chesusdog]

Pager? Is this 1993?

Your cell phone pretty much tells anyone with the proper equipment and know how where you are. That's why Russia had to ban cell phones from their invading troops in Ukraine as Ukrainian intelligence was using their meta-data to paint targets.

 

[Herbert Nenninger]

Instantly one of the most infamous acts of espionage in history.

When we were on rotations in med school, we kept paging one of our classmates with the number for Danny’s as the call back number. Wonder where that would rank?

 

[aTotal360]

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

don’t mess with Ziva!

 

[mcdawg22]

I wonder if they were Drunk as hell, but no throwing up and half way home…

 

[L4Dawg]

I don’t think they had to do much screening to see which ones needed to be detonated. It’s fairly safe to say that anyone who buys a pager in 2024 is 100% a terrorist….or a drug dealer.

Hospitals still use them.

 

[L4Dawg]

Maybe I need to quit sleeping with my phone near my bed. I had a Samsung battery swell up on me one time and it was hot as fire. At the time I never knew they could explode or catch fire. Israel probably just looked into how cell phone manufacturers design them to malfunction over time and heat up to wear the battery out. They were probably thinking "lets just have the pager install 10,000 updates immediately upon our signal".

They were tampered with either on manufacture or in transit. They had a small amount of a hard to detect explosives and a switch in them. The company that supposedly made them had purchased a license for the brand from a Taiwanese manufacturer two years ago. The company is called BAC. It is registered in Budapest. Nobody seems to know much about them. Nobody can contact them since this happened either it seems. That all came out overnight. This one has got future movie all over it. My guess is that company doesn't really exist, outside of the Mossad.

 

[PooPopsBaldHead]

This would never have worked if Hezbollah cared about how translucent plastics on pagers made you look cool the way we did in the mid 90's in rural Mississippi...

 

[atomic dawg]

I wonder if they were Drunk as hell, but no throwing up and half way home…

I think it’s fair to say it was NOT a good day for whoever had those pagers.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

How do you cause thousands of pagers to blow up simultaneously? Please keep politics out of this one. At least let the question be answered before you post something that will get it locked.

Ans: Supply chain attack.

 

[L4Dawg]

Today it seems that Hezbollah's walki talkies are exploding. Three dead and many wounded.

 

[Shmuley]

I think it’s fair to say it was NOT a good day for whoever had those pagers.

Or their wives/kids who are now required to carry the pagers and stand at a distance.

 

[dawgman42]

Today it seems that Hezbollah's walki talkies are exploding. Three dead and many wounded.

Wonder when the last time was that they sourced their toilet seats?

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Wonder when the last time was that they sourced their toilet seats?

Supplies are limited:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/world/middleeast/gaza-sanitation-crisis.html

 

[HailStout]

Someone check on Zack morris

 

[Perd Hapley]

Your cell phone pretty much tells anyone with the proper equipment and know how where you are. That's why Russia had to ban cell phones from their invading troops in Ukraine as Ukrainian intelligence was using their meta-data to paint targets.

Airplane mode, bro****

 

[dawgman42]

New quote for the throw pillow:

"From the river to the sea
Exploding pagers are fine with me."

 

[tbaydog]

 

[ChE1997]

How do you cause thousands of pagers to blow up simultaneously? Please keep politics out of this one. At least let the question be answered before you post something that will get it locked.

You sell pagers with explosives in them. And trigged to explode when a certain number is displayed.
most of the injuries were to eyes and face. Which means a smaller charge is needed.
I assume same with the cellphones and walkie talkies they are using for that now.
I wonder if computers are next.

 

[ChE1997]

I wonder if Mossad came up with this plan after they moved to pagers, or if they had inside people pushing them to move to pagers, knowing they could do this.

They blew up cellphones and used them to track people 10 years ago. Which is why the switch to pagers and walkie talkies.