Thing is, you don’t know who has got their hands on your phone/device before you buy it. Low or high tech.

In the case of your personal smart phone you might buy your phone from a dealer that sells to a variety of people which makes an attack like this on you very unlikely. Furthermore you may take your phone to a repair shop and there they will be able to find any signs of tampering. You have more to worry about from Five Eyes Spyware which is on every device and social media site.

Hezbollah’s pager was bought from one point of sale - a single point of failure. Furthermore the reliability and cheapness of these devices makes it less necessary to repair them and find signs of tampering.

Hungarian shell company behind exploding pagers used by Israel in Lebanon terror attack - The Cradle

Someone mentioned Motorola as a supplier of these types of pagers, but these AR-924 models are made by this exact company.

The AR-924 pagers used by Israel in a terror attack that left thousands of casualties in Lebanon on 17 September were manufactured by BAC Consulting KFT, a shell company based in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, according to a statement released by Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese firm that authorized the use of its brand on the pagers.

“According to the cooperation agreement, we authorize BAC to use our brand trademark for product sales in designated regions, but the design and manufacturing of the products are solely the responsibility of BAC,” the statement read.

Gold Apollo’s chair, Hsu Ching-Kuang, told journalists Wednesday that his firm inked the licensing agreement with BAC three years ago.

“The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it,” the Taiwanese businessman told reporters. “We are a responsible company. This is very embarrassing.”

No kidding, bud.

BAC Consulting is registered with Cristiana Rosaria Bársony-Arcidiacono, listed as its owner and sole employee on the company website.

The website, which was blocked behind a username and password on Wednesday morning, also claims she has served on the board of directors of the Earth Child Institute. However, the sustainability group does not list Bársony-Arcidiacono among its board members.

Good post, comrade. Sounds to me like the ability to maneuver the missile is desirable for getting around dome defenses anyways, and it’s hard to get capability to both maneuver and maintain hypersonic speeds. Not to say that a Zircon missile would be useless to the Houthis, I mean speed has to make up for that somehow, right?

For the first time, an American-Israeli weapons manufacturer partnership at an American University has ended over Palestinian rights.

This actually happened a few days ago.

The MIT Coalition for Palestine shares a major victory: #MIT Activists end the first American-Israeli weapons manufacturer partnership at a University.

The Scientists Against Genocide Everywhere (SAGE) Movement at MIT continues 🕊️ More at mitsage.org

Idk it could be about Israel not wanting to contend with the fact that it can’t answer this strike tit-for-tat. Or they want to forget about this story already because it’s invade Lebanon time. Or Israel wants to lobby for better iron dome missles.

MEE - Florida lawmaker sparks outrage for celebrating Turkish-American activist’s killing in West Bank

Randy Fine, the Republican state representative for Florida, is facing a wave of anger and accusations of Islamophobia after celebrating the death of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old Turkish-American activist who was fatally shot by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank.

“Throw rocks, get shot. One less #MuslimTerrorist. #FireAway,” Fine wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, in response to a post announcing Eygi’s killing last weekend.

This is a Florida State Representative and a white one attacking Palestinians at that, so I expect nothing to happen to him.

MEE - Houthi ‘hypersonic’ missile attack on Israel: What we know so far

Yemen’s Houthis on Sunday claimed a ballistic missile attack that hit the centre of Israel.

The attack by the long-range missile sparked a fire but did not cause any direct casualties, according to the Israeli army.

The Houthis, who control most of Yemen and the capital Sanaa, said the missile was a hypersonic one. The Israeli military denied it was hypersonic.

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It is not clear how the Houthis may have developed or acquired the missiles.

Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday said his country had not sent hypersonic missiles to the Yemeni group.

“We don’t have such missiles to provide to Yemen," Pezeshkian said in a televised speech. But Iran last year showcased what it described as the country’s first Iranian-made hypersonic ballistic missile named “Fattah”.

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Hamas welcomed Sunday’s attack, and said it considered it a “natural response to the Zionist entity’s aggression against our Palestinian people”. It added that Israel “will not enjoy security” until it ends the war on Gaza.

Al Jazeera - Israeli military report on captives puts pressure on Netanyahu

Their analysis on the recent rift between Gallant and Netanyahu is saying that the two have different ideas on what to do with the military to free the hostages. Netanyahu seems to want another big hostage freeing event, like on June 8 when they killed at least 274 Palestinians and injured more than 400 to get 4 hostages. Gallant might be having different ideas, especially regarding the upcoming invasion of Lebanon.

Maybe something funny happens but more likely this is all a show to get out of having to actually invade Lebanon.

Leaked name of shooter according to NY Post - RYAN WESLEY ROUTH

His twitter - filled with pro ukraine, pro taiwan, and NATO stuff - https://xcancel.com/ryanrouth

A pretty deranged account that would post his own phone number lol.

EDIT: the hasanabi coverage on this is guy is insane. Turned on Trumped in 2106, became Bernie bro, barricaded himself inside his house, probably is schizo going off his twitter, wants to join ukraine, tweeted at Kim Jong Un to try to invite him to his party. Wow. The internet.

LIVE UPDATES: TRUMP SHOT AT IN HIS GOLF COURSE

• “Sheriff says the man who pointed a rifle through a fence at Trump’s golf course had a scope, backpacks and a GoPro camera and was 400-500 yards from Trump.”
• Bunch of whining about how his security detail isn’t big enough to secure an entire golf course.
• “Trump’s golf course is surrounded by shrubbery. If somebody gets into the shrubbery, they’re pretty much out of sight, Bradhsaw says.” - guy outsmarted by a bush
• “No injuries were reported: Trump’s campaign and the Secret Service said Trump was safe, and the agency said it was investigating the incident that occurred shortly before 2 p.m.”

*monkey paw curls* Christopher Columbus statue gets taken down but is replaced by Trinidadian Uncle Ruckus.

AP News - Trinidad and Tobago reckons with colonialism in a debate on statues, signs and monuments of its past

So Trinidad and Tobago held an open podium style town hall on what to do with remaining colonialist/imperialist statues, symbols, etc. Things like a Christopher Columbus status and the coat-of-arms. It took 62 years post independence to make it happen but I guess it’s happening now? Why not earlier is what I want to know.

Some suggested a prominent Columbus statue be placed in a museum. Others requested it be destroyed and that people be allowed to stomp on the dusty remains. One man encouraged officials to round up statues of colonial figures and create a “square of the infamous.”

The public hearing was held just a week after the government announced it would redraw the nation’s coat of arms to remove Christopher Columbus’ three famous ships — the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa María – and replace it with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument that originated in the Caribbean nation.

Hell yeah now we’re talking.

Others pushed for further changes on Wednesday night.

“What the hell is the queen still doing on top of the coat of arms? Please let us put her to rest,” said Eric Lewis, who identifies as a member of the First Peoples, also known as Amerindians.

Looking at all the countries with the union jack on there for no reason other than they were colonized once by the brits. I think only Hawaii gets a pass since it’s there to snub the USA. Put it to rest!

“We stumbling and tripping over heroes,” he said. “To have produced so much genius, and that lineage is nowhere present in the landscape.”

Among the suggestions of people to honor was Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul; Cyril Lionel Robert James, a historian and journalist; and Kwame Ture, who helped spearhead the Black Power movement in the U.S. Others suggested that prominent Amerindians and more local women be honored, including Patricia Bishop, an educator and musician and Beryl McBurnie, a teacher credited with promoting and saving Caribbean dance.

Binance complies with Israeli request, seizes Palestinian funds

Crypto exchange Binance has seized all funds belonging to Palestinians, acting on a request from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

“I have received this from several sources. All Palestinians are affected and judging by the way things are going all Lebanese and Syrians will get the same treatment. Not your keys, not your coins. We are all Palestinians now.”

Centralized exchanges like Binance are starting to look more like government snitches than safe places to store your crypto. And it gets worse.

Ray claims that Binance has been leaking info on MENA (Middle East and North Africa) users to the IDF without any legal process—no warrant, no subpoena, just handing it over.

This seems to be coupled with a sudden outflow of ~$2 billion dollars worth of BTC from Binance today: https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1f2nt6b/binance_just_had_an_outflow_of_44000_bitcoins/

I find it hard to believe any real hamas would just leave their funds hanging out on a hostile western platform when they can take the funds out. I also find it hard to believe $2 billion would be kept in crypto alone.

Well, let this serve as a warning to anyone looking to do business with Binance, they’re basically a wing of the IOF now.

So Vance had those coom cups prepared beforehand

Good theories and all, but have we ever seen the body?

HE LIVES

Is he trying to own Iran, or is he for real proud of his country being champion in that?

Rybar’s take on the UK “slipping into totalitarianism” regarding perceived heavy handedness of the law on the race rioters.

Just LOL. Rybar will just ignore the years of propaganda that told UK citizens that there are migrants arriving on boats that bring all the crime and focus on the one week where the media had to turn it back or else they would be implicated in the proceedings. Nothing to see there I’m sure.

for their part is doing the right thing too late. Where were these arrests when Nigel Farage were making veiled threats at immigrants? The Sun has done more incitement than any FB post ever has.

Classic genocide move, get rid of that big, scary number whenever you can. Never let them count the bodies.

The poors will be allowed to fish to their heart’s content for leaded fish for sustenance.

r/wholesomememes : “EVERYBODY LIKED THAT”