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Today's Topics:
1. How did pagers explode? (Tom Worthington)
2. Re: How did pagers explode? (Roger Clarke)
3. Re: How did pagers explode? (Kim Holburn)
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:50:32 +1000
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
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Subject: [LINK] How did pagers explode?
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Yesterday SBS News asked me about exploding pagers. So propped my phone
on a suitcase & was interviewed for the national news: "How did
Hezbollah's pagers explode in Lebanon and Syria?".
https://youtu.be/98u6VcDiNJ0?si=xbPMkrJLCAmNFIxN
When working at HQ Australian Defence Force I tested the use of pagers,
traveling around defence bases in northern Australia by RAAF aircraft.
The units were able to receive messages in remote areas and while in
flight, making them useful.
One feature which I noticed was that it was possible to send a test
message to a pager which was apparently switched off. The only way to
prevent this was to remove the battery from the unit. It is likely that
something like this was used for the attack on Hezbollah. Also I warned
that some of the pagers could have not been delivered to their intended
targets and pose a danger to the community, worldwide.
Any thoughts for followup interviews?
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2024/09/how-did-pagers-explode.html
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:50:54 +1000
From: Roger Clarke <[email protected]>
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Apart from the slightly fuzzy image (which TV producers used to be
concerned about, but haven't been since COVID), I thought it was good -
as clear and full an explanation as was feasible at that stage.
Certainly the first part was clearer than my quick, informal explanation
to my wife a few hours earlier (:-)}
I've wondered about the extent to which the nature of the devices and
their uses has changed from their earlier manifestations.
If the providers stuck with legacy architecture, and grafted functions
on without re-thinking the device as a whole, they may have left big
holes for the Israelis to exploit.
Now, about this morning's exploding radios ...
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On 19/9/2024 08:50, Tom Worthington wrote:
> Yesterday SBS News asked me about exploding pagers. So propped my phone
> on a suitcase & was interviewed for the national news: "How did
> Hezbollah's pagers explode in Lebanon and Syria?".
> https://youtu.be/98u6VcDiNJ0?si=xbPMkrJLCAmNFIxN
>
> When working at HQ Australian Defence Force I tested the use of pagers,
> traveling around defence bases in northern Australia by RAAF aircraft.
> The units were able to receive messages in remote areas and while in
> flight, making them useful.
>
> One feature which I noticed was that it was possible to send a test
> message to a pager which was apparently switched off. The only way to
> prevent this was to remove the battery from the unit. It is likely that
> something like this was used for the attack on Hezbollah. Also I warned
> that some of the pagers could have not been delivered to their intended
> targets and pose a danger to the community, worldwide.
>
> Any thoughts for followup interviews?
> https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2024/09/how-did-pagers-explode.html
>
>
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:24:29 +1000
From: Kim Holburn <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [LINK] How did pagers explode?
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Pagers are used extensively in the NSW RFS. Mostly really old but they are
still getting new ones.
On 19/9/2024 8:50 am, Tom Worthington wrote:
> Yesterday SBS News asked me about exploding pagers. So propped my phone on a
> suitcase & was interviewed for the national news: "How
> did Hezbollah's pagers explode in Lebanon and Syria?".
> https://youtu.be/98u6VcDiNJ0?si=xbPMkrJLCAmNFIxN
>
> When working at HQ Australian Defence Force I tested the use of pagers,
> traveling around defence bases in northern Australia by RAAF
> aircraft. The units were able to receive messages in remote areas and while
> in flight, making them useful.
>
> One feature which I noticed was that it was possible to send a test message
> to a pager which was apparently switched off. The only
> way to prevent this was to remove the battery from the unit. It is likely
> that something like this was used for the attack on
> Hezbollah. Also I warned that some of the pagers could have not been
> delivered to their intended targets and pose a danger to the
> community, worldwide.
>
> Any thoughts for followup interviews?
> https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2024/09/how-did-pagers-explode.html
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Link mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
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