From The Financial Times: From Taipei to Budapest: the mysterious trail of exploding pagers

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  1. Greg in Ak
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    Lots of grist for this mill. But if Hez has been buying from one company for years and ordered in bulk then they were lazy and complacent along with being generally evil MF’ers.Report

    • Jaybird in reply to Greg in Ak
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      Well, they’re going to call in a handful of Security Consultants and watch a bunch of powerpoints that discuss supply chain management and chain of custody.

      I’m still exceptionally interested in where the pagers got adulterated.

      At the original factory prior to being put in the packaging?
      In a lab between the factory and the shipping container?
      When the shipping container was on the boat in dock?
      When the shipping container was on the boat in transit?

      There are only so many moments where this would be easy to get away with and where they’d be able to take their own sweet time (something that *I* would want to be able to take, were I working with explosives).Report

      • Greg in Ak in reply to Jaybird
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        That was a lot of pagers and walkie talkie. Had to take a while. They must ordered few pizza’s for that project. Wouldnt’ surprise me if it happened at the dock before unloading. Being hated, like Hez , is not great for security.Report

        • Jaybird in reply to Greg in Ak
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          At the dock before unloading means that they would have had to smuggle the explosives into the port as well.

          Which isn’t an argument to say that it didn’t happen there… but that’s one hell of a trick that would require effort that other places in the process wouldn’t require.Report

      • Slade the Leveller in reply to Jaybird
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        Let me tell you, knowing what the Mossad does to its enemies, if I know how the pagers got turned into bombs, I ain’t talking.Report

    • LeeEsq in reply to Greg in Ak
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      These are people who believe that Israel is one more glorious push to collapse despite all evidnece. Of course, they are stupid, lazy, an complacent.Report

  2. Michael Cain
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    I have to admit that I’m somewhat surprised Iran isn’t stamping out thousands of cheap communications widgets for its various proxies.Report

  3. Jaybird
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    One thing that I’m still wondering is the extent to which this avenue is burned.

    Like, the Budapest connection? That seems to be gone now. Poof. They blew up the walkie-talkies. There’s going to be a bunch of electronics trashed and then Hezbollah (and Lebanon) will wander back to high tech after going through a bunch of trusted source supply chain seminars.

    Right? Because they didn’t figure out how to do this to just, you know, devices with particular battery configurations… right?Report

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