Making the news today....

[peds]

Crikey! That's some job. 

 

The armchair generals I've read seem to think it is a few grams of explosives, not just self-destructing pagers. 

 

But distributing 1200 of them (that number could continue to rise, the news was dozens at first, then hundreds, now 1200)... that’s just cartoon-style levels of whatever the hell this is.

 

Looking forward to seeing how this develops! 

[Mark Bolam]

28 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Quite simply the most effective bit of counter intelligence seen in recent times.

 

 

 

Jesus.

 

After this post I am going to throw my iphone in a water butt just to be on the safe side.

[Mick Dempsey]

36 minutes ago, AHPP said:

“Counter intelligence”

 

You’re wasted on tree work, Mick. 
 

Yes, I was unhappy with that description.

What would you suggest?

[Stubby]

5 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Yes, I was unhappy with that description.

What would you suggest?

Black opps ?

[sime42]

I guess actions like this are why Mossad has the reputation of being one of, if not the, most sophisticated Intelligence Services in the world.

 

 

[Mesterh]

James bond stuff right there

They must have managed to get explosives into those pagers. Or, well I'm hoping they did.😯

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

[Johnsond]

45 minutes ago, Mesterh said:

James bond stuff right there

They must have managed to get explosives into those pagers. Or, well I'm hoping they did.😯

 

 

It’s not so much getting explosive into the device rather the detonation part of it. A normal industrial det will blow your hand apart if it goes off whilst holding it, explosives tend to be very stable and need the energy the det provides to trigger things. I watch the uxo sups at work at min prepping charges for diver deployment and they are relaxed with the explosives but ultra cautious with the dets. These pagers must have been manufactured with a serious amount of planning and know how and set up to go off with a predetermined number or timer etc. Anyhow I guess it doesn’t bode well for Middle East peace and stability if there ever was such a thing. 

[peds]

Yeah, we'll need another few hundred million pagers before that happens. 

[Steven P]

I'd guess though at 1200 a point has been made and got the world talking to work out what they did. I'm favouring the battery idea - to get 1200+ pagers modified I think you'd need to do that at factory level, to know exactly who the customers will be (can't have them sent all over the world or indeed to civilians in the middle east... or Israelis). I guess they wouldn't have been so stupid as 1200 of them to get a pager update sent through the post would they without anyone higher up getting wind of that? Either way a massive data breach which I am surprised about, thought military of all nations would be a little more secure than that.

 

 

 

Edit... that makes me wonder... if they can do it there they can do it anywhere... lucky trees are fairly benign.. and my phone doesn't do internets (personal choice can run about the moors with a £20 handset and not care if I trash it weekly)

Edited September 17, 2024 by Steven P