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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by embedding-shape on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:09PM (#46546505)
> I mean, who else is using a pager in Lebanon?

But they can impossibly actually know who physically has the pager next to them, when they're triggering them. This is the "failing to verify each target" part.

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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by baggy_trough on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:52PM (#46547667)
That's not a very realistic standard for a wartime covert operation.
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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by embedding-shape on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:52AM (#46551996)
Maybe that's the wrong way to think about it? Maybe these "wartime covert operations" need to read up on Human Rights and figure out a way to work within it?
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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by baggy_trough on Friday January 09, 2026 @10:55AM (#46555170)
Sounds like a unilateral disarmament, which is not how to win a war. Hamas and the like have no concern with human rights of course.
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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by hnaccount_rng on Friday January 09, 2026 @10:09AM (#46554681)
I mean in the case in Lebanon they knew. They sold those pagers to Hezbollah.
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Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods by lobf on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:59PM (#46557650)
Is this a SoP in wartime?
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