"Walkie-Talkie" (i.e. two-way radio) attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon from Israel/IDF/Mossad.
Every government/military in the world is now on notice that their own communication equipment can be used as a weapon against them.
This is also going to make supply chain logistics of distributing communication equipment an absolute nightmare... sea freight (internationally) and ground (nationally) might become the only option for shipping...
Good job Israel for terrorizing the entire planet… 🤦♂️
Not necessarily if they have right checks in place.
I think this could be avoided if they simply strip 10 random pagers and inspect them carefully by experts. The same goes with walkie talkies and other possible items that hasn't blow up yet.
The attack wasn't really a specific attack against walkie-talkies. You can plant a bomb in literally anything, Israel just happened to put them in walkie-talkies, pagers, and possibly solar panels. The possibility of putting a bomb in something isn't new, and neither is putting a bomb into a communication device (Israel has done that since the 1990s).
I would hope that governments have always thought about security for military equipment. If governments are only now realizing that a foreign power could tamper with their equipment something is seriously wrong, especially since the U. S. has been tampering with other countries electronics for decades with Stuxnet and has run multiple fake companies (Anom, Crypto AG) that tampered with encryption to access state secrets.
The illusions of security over long distances is finally falling. Anyone building a physical product at scale just realized that globalization has failed when brute force attacked by nation states.
Militaries will just have to add electronic assembly to their training, like assembling a gun. This could turn out to be a good thing, as people get more used to doing it.
