“Press with both hands”

…just when you thought this timeline couldn’t get much weirder.

  • @[email protected]
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    96 months ago

    Incorrect premise. A pager is an ordinary consumer electronic device that can and did find its way into innocent hands.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      Not this one. Israel created a shell company that sold these particular pagers only to Hezbollah (reportedly at a profit). Neither did Hezbollah buy these in random shops nor were they ever distributed to random shops. The network they used was also exclusively created by and for Hezbollah, not any civilians, so even if civilians had wanted to use these devices, they would not have been able to. Hezbollah bought them in bulk and distributed them to their members, believing they would be a safe way to communicate without tracking, since most pagers are one-way devices.

      • @[email protected]
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        56 months ago

        I mean, I wasn’t there, but I read that it did hurt some people who weren’t directly associated with the group. Some children and a medic, apparently?

        • @[email protected]
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          16 months ago

          Honestly, this is the most insulting accusation you could make. Is my writing style really this awful?

          I’m not. This user name is decades old. I think I first started using it around 2003-2005. If you’re willing to dig, you can find things written under it aeons ago.