Gift article link provided. Confirms attack was a supply chain operation where Israeli intelligence installed explosives in a Hezbollah-bound beeper shipment and set them off with a message (not a cyber attack that somehow overloaded batteries as originally reported).
ImpossibleFlopper on
I go on social media and everyone’s losing their shit, calling Israel terrorists for this…but everyone was quiet when Hezbollah was launching rockets at Israel for a year.
I don’t think that’s fair.
MusicbyTony on
That’s genius. What a mindfuck for Hezbollah !
This has to be one of the best examples of fuck around and find out I’ve seen….
Beginning-Sun-3532 on
I wonder what Hez thinks of having all the surveillance videos of Israel and were going to wreak havoc on Israel.
Maximum_Overdrive on
So 3000 pagers were ordered and any that were turned on get the message to blow. Explains the casualties numbers being in the thousands. Sounds like they pulled off a very successful counter terrorism operation on hezbolah.
KigaroGasoline on
Bold prediction: this bad publicity on pagers will guarantee that pagers will not get popular in the US again. Not a good time to be in PR for the pager industry.
PowerfulSeeds on
Love how NYTimes is always ready with a CIA/Mossad explanation piece after every cool hip thing they do, like operation Beeper or the spike proximity bomb in Tehran.. This definitely isn’t propaganda.
wasabiiii on
A friend’s wife in Lebanon works at an American run hospital. She told him that they had had their pagers swapped out for phones a week ago. Of course they never thought anything about it. But I bet that was an attempt to avoid any leaked pagers having made their way into other hands.
NothingSinceMonday on
Rumor has it, Verizon and ATT are looking to do this to people that are late paying their bills.
Alik013 on
an impressive attack..but pointless if they don’t start a large scale war on hezbolla ..because they will recover from this sooner or later
big_floppy on
Incredible there are some people out there who still use beepers..
pink_kunt_ on
The New York Times is a better source for this kind of thing than The Times of Israel.
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Gift article link provided. Confirms attack was a supply chain operation where Israeli intelligence installed explosives in a Hezbollah-bound beeper shipment and set them off with a message (not a cyber attack that somehow overloaded batteries as originally reported).
I go on social media and everyone’s losing their shit, calling Israel terrorists for this…but everyone was quiet when Hezbollah was launching rockets at Israel for a year.
I don’t think that’s fair.
That’s genius. What a mindfuck for Hezbollah !
This has to be one of the best examples of fuck around and find out I’ve seen….
I wonder what Hez thinks of having all the surveillance videos of Israel and were going to wreak havoc on Israel.
So 3000 pagers were ordered and any that were turned on get the message to blow. Explains the casualties numbers being in the thousands. Sounds like they pulled off a very successful counter terrorism operation on hezbolah.
Bold prediction: this bad publicity on pagers will guarantee that pagers will not get popular in the US again. Not a good time to be in PR for the pager industry.
Love how NYTimes is always ready with a CIA/Mossad explanation piece after every cool hip thing they do, like operation Beeper or the spike proximity bomb in Tehran.. This definitely isn’t propaganda.
A friend’s wife in Lebanon works at an American run hospital. She told him that they had had their pagers swapped out for phones a week ago. Of course they never thought anything about it. But I bet that was an attempt to avoid any leaked pagers having made their way into other hands.
Rumor has it, Verizon and ATT are looking to do this to people that are late paying their bills.
an impressive attack..but pointless if they don’t start a large scale war on hezbolla ..because they will recover from this sooner or later
Incredible there are some people out there who still use beepers..
The New York Times is a better source for this kind of thing than The Times of Israel.