Your friendly neighbourhood terrorist state
In a recent interview, the former head of the Israeli Mossad, Yossi Cohen, revealed that Israel has similar “booby-trapped and spy-manipulated equipment” in “all the countries you can imagine”.
Chilling. Which of our devices are actually Israeli remote controlled bombs?
All this, while simultaneously being gaslighted about why BDS is “bad”
I can’t put into words how horrible that week was. Everyone was suddenly expecting their phones, laptops, solar inverters, and even newer cars to spontaneously kill them. These things exploded out on the street, in buses, in restaurants. Even if you’ve been told all of your life these people are terrorists (and that is something I’ve definitely been told more than you have), this attack is a genuine innovation in terrorism. Utter chaos, and a complete lockdown of our weak medical infrastructure.
The doctors were pulling shards of glass out of and had to amputate children’s eyeballs. For the crime of sitting in the wrong bus at the wrong time. I don’t care even if they were sharing a bus with Satan.From a comment I made about living through that week.
Imagine driving down the road and everyone affiliated with one gang just has their phone explode. While they’re driving, sitting in buses, walking down the road or eating at a local restaurant with their family. Wouldn’t you be so relieved to see them all die morbid deaths? Wouldn’t the screams of their children and their careening vehicles as well as the panicking normal people trying to break their way out of bus windows warm your heart? They were in gangs or something, this is a good thing! 🥰🥰
And the mass hysteria right after, 48 hours of people thinking their phones, computers, CPAP machines, solar inverters, cars, wireless devices, and basically anything with a power button could imminently explode. Like we don’t have other problems.
And then you go online and enough people are smug about it, even on Lemmy (a rare decent space online), that you genuinely lose some remnant of respect for the average person. I’ve been online for almost two decades now, I’ve seen and gotten used to how mean it could be, but this event broke something and I’ve actually cried over nothing more than expressions of callousness online that weren’t even directed at me.And another comment I made soon after it happened.
they maybe used it to get entry into hezbollah supply chain, and then for monitoring aftermath
and yeah this is a blatant lie:
In a recent interview, the former head of the Israeli Mossad, Yossi Cohen, revealed that Israel has similar “booby-trapped and spy-manipulated equipment” in “all the countries you can imagine”.
an attack that was a combination of supply chain infiltration, psyops (convincing hezbollah to ditch phones), surveillance (lending credence to the former), mass tampering, that got planned for a decade, took well over a half year to execute, and now will be useless because people know about it, and will try to mitigate (by looking inside), used as an one-shot chance against strategic adversary, but yeah there are thousands of phones with bombs in moldova, dude trust me
this is propaganda fluff for israeli nationalists
Maybe they mean backdoors in CPUs (most non-Chinese CPUs are designed partly in Israel; they have a lot of semiconductor engineers there), or other rumoured capacities (such as the alleged backdoor in airport bomb scanners that returns a false negative if the item being scanned contains a specific pattern).
