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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by sushid on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:52PM (#41571258)
Why did the Hezbollah even leverage beepers in the first place? As in why not just use telegram or signal or some other app of choice?
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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by zhengyi13 on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @03:27PM (#41571671)
Pagers don't have GPS devices embedded in them.

Apps (some more or less than others) represent a target for a nation state to pursue for information, graph analysis, bugging, etc.

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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by netsharc on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:56PM (#41573276)
Even dumb phones can be tracked by antenna triangulation, and I wouldn't be surprised if Israeli hackers are inside Lebanese phone networks...
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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by roywiggins on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:59PM (#41573305)
Even a dumbphone with the GPS physically removed is going to be a lot easier to target than a one-way pager, since they are always chatting with the cell towers.
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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by jameshart on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:34PM (#41573599)
Pagers don’t have GPS devices embedded in them - that you know of.

If you can’t control your supply chain then that isn’t guaranteed.

After all, most pagers don’t contain explosive charges either.

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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by gsich on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @08:14PM (#41574284)
GPS is receive only.
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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by hattmall on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @03:15PM (#41571554)
So that Israel couldn't track their locations via cell networks. Sure you could use Signal or w/e but it's the cell IDs and knowing where people are that was the issue. The pagers do far less, if any, two way communication so it's not likely to give away location data.
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Re:Dozens of Hezbollah members said to be seriously injured ... by ra on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:10PM (#41573420)
Because cellphones transmit, pagers don't.
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