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According to Reuters, Hezbollah began using the pager devices that exploded only a few months ago...did these devices arrive in Lebanon already "treated" and ready for the moment of the explosion...time will tell
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Just like the Iranian nuclear centrifuges spinning out of control a few years back. No “preconditioning” required. They are just that good at exploiting tech.


#Gaza #Palestine

The full extent of a huge Israeli strike on a refugee camp in central Gaza is becoming clearer.

At least 80 people are feared trapped under the rubble of their homes in the Bureij camp.

Several people are dead but the toll is expected to rise dramatically. The injured, mostly women and children, have been taken to hospital.

Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum has more from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Palestine.

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After 2 years of war #ScienceForUkraine is still needed - some great initiatives here.

nature.com/articles/d41586-024…

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The @CMSexperiment #WBoson mass measurement is rather innovative. it uses the largest dataset ever used for such a measurement and we carefully planned to have a super-understood dataset, need cutting-edge theory models and we use more control checks (including on the J/ψ peak, not just the Z) to really have a lot of extra information to control our uncertainties. Pic: slide from talk by Josh. (yes I am liveblogging peeps)


Updated to note: passwords are not deleted and website authors are *supposed* to keep your password working after an auto-upgrade like this, but I'd still recommend disabling.

If you're upgrading to #macOS Sequoia today, make sure that you disable this option in the Passwords app. Passkeys are great, but *automatically* transitioning an account from "able to authenticate with any device" to "maybe only able to authenticate with an Apple device" seems like a dangerous thing to default to "on".
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@mcc @fstx I think SRP is great; I tried to implement it at one point and I am sad to say that effort failed. But also it presents a UX that is considerably more error-prone; attackers can still just steal the password directly from you and then do a very secure TLS-SRP handshake from their own endpoints with no issue. so passkeys do have the upper hand here.
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This makes me trust #TechBros even more than I already didn’t.
That sound you hear is the plummeting fall in #tech shares.

We already knew we had #spies in our pockets.
Now we know those spies are willing to kill us if we don’t toe their #political lines.
#uspol #israel #hezbollah

nytimes.com/live/2024/09/17/wo…






More than 1,000 wounded by exploding pagers in Lebanon Note: *not* all Hezbollah -- lots of collateral damage :-(

reuters.com/world/middle-east/…

#israel #hezbollah #war #pagers #explodingpagers

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I'm reminded of the use of an exploding cellphone to assassinate Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash ("The Engineer") in 1996. But that was obviously a very targeted and elaborate operation. The exploding pagers must have involved some kind of mass supply chain compromise.

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@mattblaze Right?! Didn't most pagers run for at least a week on a single AA cell? I guess now we have to secure POCSAG.
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@mattblaze Yeah, this does not seem targeted at all.... Likely every pager (or a significant number of pagers) shipping into the country recently rigged somehow. Or, they rigged an entire shipment that was provided to Hezbollah specifically (maybe through Iran given the involvement there of an official).
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The logistics required to pull this off are mind-boggling, even if you’re (say) Israel. They had to get intel that they were about to switch to pagers and then be quickly ready with a fully realized supply chain compromise. Did they have a warehouse full of exploding pagers sitting around ready to go, just in case the opportunity arose someday?

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@mattblaze That's what I was wondering too. Did Israel quietly spread the word that the previous stuff was compromised too?
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see here. Sounds like the colloquial use of explosion. Or, shrapnel from venting battery case and not an actual explosive compound. It still could be a supply chain attack to maximize the damage from an overheating cell and maybe an exploit to trigger it. infosec.exchange/@maldr0id/113…
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@johne As I noted, there's a video. It does not look at all like a battery fire.
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@johne The other big question: What model pagers were these? Do any one way pagers use LiIon batteries?
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Here’s the likely model, they use LiIon batteries. But I find it extremely implausible that this was an explosion of a LiIon battery.
Now if anybody has a manual to this device with a picture of the innards and the back I’d be very happy.
mstdn.strafpla.net/@chris/1131…
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Also, presumably some fraction of these exploding pagers were duds or were off at the time of the trigger, etc, and are now available for forensic examination.

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@mattblaze Really pretty amazing, whatever your views on the Mideast. A true "holy sh*t!" moment.


Aujourd’hui sur notre blog, notre secrétaire alex nous livre son expérience du camp @ChatonsOrg de cet été, avec quelques photos pour se faire une idée du lieu (merci @bohwaz !).

lacontrevoie.fr/blog/2024/comp…




In #Tennessee sometimes a judge with a crowbar is needed to open public records with the “Open Records ‘Law’.” mainstreetmediatn.com/articles…

“#LawAndOrder for thee, but not for me.” - #BananaRepublicans #USpol

#VoteBlueNoMatterWho because #WWG1WGA is true.




#Gaza #Palestine

Top United Nations human rights experts have condemned Western nations for supporting Israel's devastating war on Gaza, urging the world to stop an unfolding genocide in Palestine.

This comes as the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, is accusing Israel in a new report of carrying out a deliberate starvation campaign in Gaza.

youtube.com/watch?v=kzs7S8vKMr…

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BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨🚨

Iran's ambassador to Lebanon was seriously injured during the pager hacking attack in Lebanon!!!

Mojtaba Amani had a Hezbollah pager???
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas #BreakingNews #Breaking #Iran #Lebanon

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He was accidentally close to a pager that was accidentally tampered with that accidentally was listening to HezbollahNet at the time…
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