Israel's supply-chain pager attack moves state-sponsored violence -- which is never contained there -- into a new era, writes Spencer Ackerman at the essential "Forever Wars" site.
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Israel's supply-chain pager attack moves state-sponsored violence -- which is never contained there -- into a new era, writes Spencer Ackerman at the essential "Forever Wars" site.
A New Tactical Era of Supply-Chain Sabotage at Scale
Preliminary thoughts on Israel's mass detonation of pagers in Lebanon. Now we have a different angle to understand the assertion that supply-chain vulnerabilities are national security concerns
FOREVER WARS (www.forever-wars.com)
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Dan Gillmor last edited by
Note that with internet chips getting dropped into everything; cars, refrigerators, children's toys, even your toaster becomes a potential bomb.
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@mastodonmigration @dangillmor No...these pagers had actual explosives installed in them. Exploding toasters (or anything else) are not really a thing. The Mossad is not in your toaster.
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If you can interrupt the supply chain for pagers and hand held radios you can interrupt it for anything else.
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@mastodonmigration @dangillmor If you have not been lobbing missiles at Israeli civilians for a year, it's likely that you are safer than the Hezbollah guys were. Otherwise, you are being paranoid. Do you also worry that Russian agents have spiked your tea with polonium? That Saudi agents are going to lure you in and cut you up to carry you out in suitcases? That Ukrainians are going to send a drone to your apartment building?
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You are assuming too much and being very aggressive in your response. The post simply says that this type of attack can be perpetrated using anything attached to the internet. It is not about anything other than that observation. Understand you feel strongly about the subject, but all this post points out is that the mechanism of delivery is available to anyone who can interrupt the supply chain for a wide array of internet connected devices.