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Was it ACME? Please tell me it was ACME.
Whatever their source for 1980s tech was, suffice it to say that Hezbollah will not be a return customer. Pagers got distributed to thousands of significant figures within the Iranian proxy terror army, as a means to keep Israel from penetrating their sensitive communications. Instead, Hezbollah walked into a trap that the Israelis waited for months to trigger.
And it all starts with a bad choice of vendors, according to the Associated Press:
The pagers that exploded had been newly acquired by Hezbollah after the group’s leader ordered members to stop using cell phones, warning they could be tracked by Israeli intelligence. A Hezbollah official told The Associated Press the pagers were a new brand the group had not used before.
At about 3:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, pagers started heating up and then exploding in the pockets and hands of those carrying them — particularly in a southern Beirut suburb and the Beqaa region of eastern Lebanon where Hezbollah has a strong presence, and in Damascus, where several Hezbollah members were wounded, Lebanese security officials and a Hezbollah official said. The Hezbollah official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
Yes, because when you need mission-critical infrastructure, always choose some new and untested outfit. To be fair, the Department of Defense sometimes makes that same choice, albeit with far more oversight over product manufacturing. Nor are we alone in that either, although this error was clearly a lot less fatal:
South Korea removed 1,300 cameras from its military bases after discovering they’re designed to feed back to a Chinese server:https://t.co/wVHtJvnqmK— Sheena Chestnut Greitens (@SheenaGreitens) September 17, 2024
Back to the pagers, however, which were part of a critical security strategy for the terror group.
