Anybody? Anybody?

The largest and most successful simultaneous targeted assassination campaign in human history took place in #Lebanon today. #Hezbollah which calls for the elimination of #Israel was the target. https://t.co/GrDgBVPyQF

— Meir Javedanfar- מאיר ג'בדנפר (@MeirJa) September 17, 2024

Anybody else getting a sci-fi movie/bad action film vibe off of this? First: pagers? What is this, 1985? Second: programming pagers to explode? If somebody had put that in the plot of a movie, it would: a) be only a side bar to the main evil scheme, and b) be labeled "ridiculous" and undercutting whatever small virtues the movie had.

But...here we are.

I guess it's a good argument for not still having a pager....

Hezbollah apparently went to pagers after their cellphones were compromised. Still curious about the attack vector, which I've read was causing batteries to overheat. I suppose these are not your 1980s-era items, so perhaps you can mess with the power management software? Or that was disinformation to protect methods and procedures?

 Well, now I suspect (seriously) a very long term plan.  (I also had no idea non-'80's era pagers were even available!). Software does run almost everything (Mr. Computer Tech here!), so it's plausible that could be hacked (highly technical term!) to do this.  I mean, the proof is in the pudding, so to speak, isn't it?

"I'm not the only skeptic!"

Cyber security expert here: I don't think this is a hack. Making batteries do anything more than burn is very hard and implausible. Far more plausible is that somebody bribed the factory to insert explosives.https://t.co/80eWbliUPm

— Robert Graham 𝕏 (@ErrataRob) September 17, 2024

If anything, this is actually more comforting.