Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday (September 17), killing at least eight people and wounding nearly 3,000 others. Cybersecurity expert Joseph Steinberg said it was surprising that the organization was using pagers in the first place given Israel's history of detonating devices. - REUTERS
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00:00So, you know, it's somewhat surprising that Hezbollah would rely on pagers, knowing that
00:05Israel has a history going back decades of being able to detonate electronic devices.
00:11Ironically, there were reports in the media not that long ago that Hezbollah essentially
00:16broadcast to the world that they were downgrading from cell phones to pagers in order to prevent
00:22Israeli intelligence from tracking people using the GPS capabilities.
00:28Why they would broadcast something like that to the world, I cannot tell you.
00:34Electronic devices such as cell phones and pagers are typically not manufactured in Lebanon
00:39or Syria or Iran.
00:40They're getting these products, Hezbollah is getting these products from overseas manufacturers.
00:47And it is likely that Western entities have the ability to influence the supply chain,
00:56to put it mildly.
00:57If this was Israel, which presumably it was, it should not be surprising that they have
01:02the capability to carry something like this out.
01:05The bigger question would be how did they manage to booby trap all of these pagers.