Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy

Re:Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attrac... by dralley on Monday November 17, 2025 @03:29PM (#45957922)

The pager detonations were weak enough to be effectively nonlethal unless you're especially vulnerable. That's how you end up with such a low death to injury ratio in the first place.

So per the KPI metric you've chosen, making it more lethal and more dangerous to bystanders would have been better.

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Re:Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attrac... by monocasa on Monday November 17, 2025 @04:39PM (#45958650)

Even among the injuries, you're still looking at an awful ratio, since Hezbollah had mostly migrated these devices out of their combatants in favor of newer models, and they were mainly in the hands of civilians.

And all of this is ignoring the blatant international law violation against booby trapping. This was very clearly a war crime.

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Re:Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attrac... by MomsAVoxell on Monday November 17, 2025 @05:33PM (#45959172)

For future reference, the specific articles:

Common Article 3; GC I Art. 12 & 18; GC III Art. 13; GC IV Arts. 27, 32 & 51; AP I Arts. 48, 51(2–5), 57 & 54; CCW Amended Protocol II Art. 7(2) of the Geneva Conventions.

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