There's no fucking way you can make a pager explode, remotely? Your insight and technical expertise is much greater than mine. How did they do that shit, if they did🤔??
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I agree with Snowden. It's likely not a hack. It is more likely a supply chain attack. Govs (including the US) have been implanting targeted bugs and trackers in modems/routers and the like both locally, and before sending them overseas to world leaders etc. for years. Supply chain attacks are nothing new. However, I need more data on these specific attacks before I can say anything beyond that.
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/cia-reportedly-hacked-wi-fi-routers-for-years-wikileaks/
Sad, sad. 😢
I'm not disputing what you're saying, by any stretch, there's no way they could effect a remote attack on a pager, even if they could, I've heard "Theories" of a remote attack on the batteries, they don't even have Lithium batteries in them, they certainly didn't back in the day, I had one myself🤷🏻♂️. Again, I'm not disputing what you or Ed says, it just doesn't add up for me. Mossad, tracked a whole batch of pagers🤔, who were destind for Hezbolla operatives🤔, and somehow bombed/bugged them🤔. Mossad are an incredibly advanced intelligence sevice, who undoubtedly knew about the October attack and overlooked it (For whatever reason). It's a mad mad mad world🤷🏻♂️. Watch. This. Space.
Wasn’t there also this backdoor in the BSD IP stack open since the 90s for about 10 years?
There have been allegations, but no concrete evidence afaik. Gregory Perry, (former NETSEC CTO) sent an email to Theo de Raadt, the BSD project leader alleging that NETSEC developers had helped the FBI insert "a number of backdoors" into the OpenBSD IPSEC implementation. No evidence was publicly confirmed to the best if my knowledge, and open source being what it is, there are lots of eyes on the BSD codebase.