Mossad Has Devices Like the Exploding Pagers in "Every Country You Can Imagine" (2025)

archerx

How is this not terrorism if true?

OhMeadhbh

Maybe we could do a survey of old mobile phones and pagers to see how many of them have explosives in them. I never thought of myself as a terrorist but if one of my phones wound up with a small bit of C4 in it, that would be a finding.

hypfer

Not implausible, but also not implausible to lie there. Why wouldn't you claim that you have this kind of capability? It only is beneficial to you especially when you're Mossad. It is a very weird thing to say though, given that the pagers targeted a very specific group doing very specific things with very specific processes using very specific tools (the pagers). The logistics of that don't check out. That's not something that just lurks "everywhere". So Devices "like" the pagers.. what does that mean? I suppose cyber implants (for the lack of a better word) would be plausible, but also stretching the whole "like" comparison. Yes, these agencies have implants in tech. All of them do. Where's the news?

oldsklgdfth

If they have this sort of ability, can they supply chain attach to add headphone jacks back into smartphone?

sparrish

This is more likely to be disinformation than it is to be true. After the 'exploding pagers', every government was inspecting and scanning their devices. It's in Mossad's favor to keep everyone second-guessing.

labrador

Big deal. I could put bombs in things to kill people but I'm not a murderous person.

lykahb

This looks like fake news. If there is a large number of such devices, they'd be discovered by the airport screening soon.

throw310822

Not sure how reliable is this guy- and I don't think at all that he is referring literally to explosive devices, but just to long-running intelligence and spying operations with sophisticated logistics. Anyway consider this. If you were Israel, where would you put more effort in: 1) fighting off a militia that is in no case a match for a country armed with F35s and nuclear weapons; 2) keep benefiting from the "unwavering" support of the West (and, by a lesser extent, the flow of money from the US)- which both grants you a state-of-the-art army and weapons, and a full diplomatic cover and support in any circumstance, from the most important actors in the world. Now consider the amount of effort and ingenuity they put in 1), and infer the amount of effort and ingenuity they must be putting in 2).

bawolff

It is election season in Israel right now, i cant help but wonder if there is some sort of internal politics going on with the article. The article seems careful to say "manipulated equipment", which sounds more like snowden style eavesdropping devices than bombs. That would be more believable to me, as sneaking exploding devices into countries they are not at war with seems implausibly diplomatically stupid. It also mostly worked for hezbollah because they were a non state group that didnt have the budget to do supply chain security. I could see targeted spy devices being plausible, but hezbollah style exploding pagers doesnt seem all that plausible or even desirable against real countries. Consider me doubtful. If it was really true, i'm pretty sure they would STFU about it.

amai

I hope they let the ones in Kremlin, Russia explode soon.

skeledrew

Are governments yanking apart or x-raying all devices anywhere remotely close to them yet? I find this pretty strange, as the last thing an intelligence officer would do is go public about their work, even if they're retired or even defected. This is like a really early or really late April Fools.

recursivedoubts

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