Massacre in Lebanon, the risk of switching from pagers to cell phones
There massacre in Lebanon of the militiamen of Hezbollah It makes the world tremble, not only because of the widening of the conflict, but also because of the method allegedly used by the Mossad Secret Servicealthough Israel has not yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Thousands of pager they all exploded together. A coordinated action against Hezbollah with disruptive effects: at least 11 dead and about 4000 injured in a hi-tech attack that deals a very hard blow to the militiamen. The news that are leaking out, call into question precisely the Mossad: the intelligence men would have placed a quantity of a powerful explosive – the penthrite – inside the ‘pagers’, which would be exploded due to increased battery temperatures.
The attack on the militants of Hezbollahfor the scope but also for the originality and the means used, raises doubts and questions. The most banal concerns everyone: if a pager explodes like this, – writes Il Corriere della Sera – can it also happen to my cell phone? On this topic, a industry expert. “In theory – explains Paolo Dal Checco, a computer forensic consultant to Corriere – yes, it could heat up to the point of damaging ita, maybe even make it swell and catch firebut even in this case an explosion like the one in the videos is not likely. The lithium batteries of cell phones, but also those of household appliances, as well as scooters and electric cars, are subject to fires but they can hardly explode in a disruptive way. It seems, therefore, that our smartphones can be detonated remotely highly unlikely in fact almost impossible, unless they have been prepared to do so by inserting an explosive charge into them.”
“But – continues Dal Checco – there are various possibilities of causing damage to third-party cell phonesbut fortunately they are currently limited to the “wipe” functions, that is, restoring the phone to its factory state, with permanent deletion of the contents. Again no attacks of this type have been carried outalthough the risk exists, especially if the attacker manages to gain access to the victims’ accounts. One hypothesis is that the pagers were equipped with an explosive charge that would self-destruct in the event of loss or theft, also injuring the potential thief. In this way, a sort of “remote wipe” not only of the data, but also of the device itself. With two possible alternatives. A user-manageable setting, just like a sort of “remote blast” to be used in case of need. Or a feature that users were unaware of.
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