Western media is calling an indiscriminate Israeli terrorist attack across Lebanon that has killed several, including at least one child and injured thousands, “unprecedented” and “sophisticated”. Yet nothing about the attack, which reportedly involved 5,000 pagers rigged with remotely detonated explosives before distribution, was unpredictable or unpreventable.

Reuters in its article, “Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Hezbollah’s pagers, say sources,” would report:

The operation was an unprecedented Hezbollah security breach that saw thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others, including the group’s fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut.

The Lebanese security source said the pagers were from Taiwan-based Gold Apollo, but the company said it did not manufacture the devices, but were made by a European firm with the right to use its brand.

Reuters reported that up to 3 grams of explosives were hidden inside a batch of new pagers, exploding when “a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives.”

Reuters reports that the pagers originated from a Taiwan-based manufacturer, who in turn claims the devices were assembled in Europe with their permission to use their brand.

The pagers purchased by and for distribution to Hezbollah’s security, administrative, medical, relief, and adjacent networks spent the entirety of their time from manufacturing to shipment in potential enemy hands before arriving in Lebanon, exposing them to at a minimum well-documented security breaches the US and its proxies have implemented for well over a decade.

This time, the devices were transformed into remotely detonated explosives with enough energy to seriously maim or kill those holding the devices or maim and kill those located nearby.

The attack was made possible not by a lapse in security or because the threat was until now inconceivable, but only by a complete lack of relevant national and operational security policy and procedures involving the procurement of technology for official and/or domestic use versus the well-understood dangers of sourcing technology from abroad.

A Long, Documented History of Turning Tech into Ticking Time bombs

American citizen and former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden was among the first to suspect the pager attack was not the result of an Israeli “hack” compromising the batteries of the devices, but was instead the result of the devices being tampered with to include explosives either at the factory or at a shipping facility. In a........

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