I don’t need your location.
Pager transmissions contain a sender and a receiver. That’s all the information you need. If a known Hisbollah sender sends to a receiver, that receiver obviously has some ties to Hisbollah.
I don’t need your location.
Pager transmissions contain a sender and a receiver. That’s all the information you need. If a known Hisbollah sender sends to a receiver, that receiver obviously has some ties to Hisbollah.
By tracking who sent what to whom?
If you know the phone number of a Hisbollah member and they send messages to a set of pagers, these are likely Hisbollah pagers. If you do that to several phone numbers, you get a pretty comprehensive list of members. You don’t need to know, where exactly they are. That’s simply not relevant.
And again: if it’s a supply chain attack, you don’t even need these contacts. Just a single entry point into the supply chain of the organization.
So, what exactly do you think would be a proper reaction here?
Hisbollah is de facto a state actor in Lebanon. Lebanon is doing nothing against a group whose declared goal is the destruction of Israel, including shooting unguided rockets into civilian areas.
Now, how would you address that? Unless you have any idea how else to solve this, you’re simply talking out of your ass.
Maybe the guys shooting rockets at Israel?
Don’t play dumber than you are.
No, they are not.
As I wrote, you can track which pager got paged when. And you can identify who uses that pager. The pager itself does not need to transmit anything for that.
You obviously don’t know how tracking works.
…and you know which telephone numbers send data to the pager and at which time. That is sufficient to track or identify individuals.
If this is a supply chain attack, the attacker already knows, which pagers are part of the organization they want to target.
What this thread here shows really well, is that the general population vastly underestimates the abilities of intelligence agencies and technology in general.
Not that I think the Israel is the good guy in this conflict, but your argument is pretty weak.
Pager are designed to be trackable. If you have such deep access to these devices, you know exactly who got called by whom and when.
Yes, there will be collateral damage, but that’s almost a given in any armed conflict.
And just about 5 of them have the same capacity as an iPhone battery. Absolutely insane.
If you’re so far on the right that even Goebbels would have found you extreme, everything is left wing.
It’s been like that for decades. It’s the quintessential “saving face” bullshit. Every attack is just performative violence to show the own supporters/population that you are actually strong, proud and won’t ever let anybody push you around!
Absolutely pathetic.
What is ticking? Putin doesn’t care for either population or territory in the short term. There’s nothing of value there, only the lost ability to bomb ukranian territory from Russia in that region.
And the embarrassment can be handled by his propaganda machine.
Of course not. Where do you think the term surgical strike comes from?
Thing is, Russia can just trade land for people.
Ukraine can’t really threaten Russia as a whole, and the further Ukraine gets, the thinner and more vulnerable the supply lines will be. So the whole thing will eventually run out of steam and Russia can try to grind its territory back under its control.
Of course it’s annoying and embarrassing for Putin, but letting it just fizzle out is definitely within his MO.
Yeah, it’s a rollercoaster.
They hope Putin will overreact and send “too many” troops there and then quickly retreat with minimal losses.
Apparently, the Ukrainians are surprised how far they made it, too. So maybe they hoped for a small distraction, got whatever this is and now are just winging it.
Maybe it’s all part of God’s plan!
Or maybe the universe is fucked up.
This isn’t an operation for land gains, it’s political.
It’s a huge embarrassment for Putin and might lead him to overreact and pull way more troops into Kursk than needed, thus freeing up capacity elsewhere.
Also, the myth of the mighty mighty Russian army gets kind of damaged, if basically a second Wagner convoy can just take large chunks of borderlands.
Putin wants to be seen as strong. And this shows how weak he actually is.
I mean, if all Palestinians are dead, there’s finally a country for all of them!
On a serious note, unless we have a very different definition of “cause”, they don’t fight for the Palestinian cause. They let the Palestinians fight for the cause of Hamas leader - power.
Hamas (just like Bibi) would lose every bit of power the moment there’s actual peace. They both need a war, so nobody looks too closely at them and their failings.
The leadership on both sides would not only lose power, but likely end up in prison or dead, if there’s ever peace.
They won’t do anything towards a peaceful solution.