Israel / Palestine
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AndyRM
Elder Goth
Pretty much aye. Because he knows he can get away with it.
Fab Foodie
Guru
It's like a frikkin' James Bond storyline. Makes you wonder how reliant we are on products especially electronics and battery powered everyday stuff that's fabricated in countries like China that are not exactly aligned with Western political ideals. It's a scary thought that this or instant system disablement or mass assassination can be brought about at a keystroke...I know, lets explode or disable all mobile phones with a UK phone number....
Cirrus
Active Member
One of the reasons BT (EE) had to rip out all of the Huawei kit from the 5g roll out they were doing was taking quite a bit of time to do.
https://www.mobileworldlive.com/bt/bt-set-to-complete-huawei-removal-by-end-march/
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matticus
Guru
Cool, isn't it?!? [Not that i want to see people being killed in the Middle East ... but if it's gonna happen, this is a cool trick... ]
lazybloke
Regular
Did Mossad sabotage your rear derailleur on the Shoreham FNRttC?
Fab Foodie
Guru
He's not gone Di2 has he?
Fab Foodie
Guru
This could become another proxy East/West war to add to Ukraine. USA/UK still (amazingly) backing Israel, Putin seems to be getting on just fine with Iran (who are no friends of the west these days), and Iran backs Hezbollah. A perfect storm in a fragile teacup....
BoldonLad
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During my Friday evening drinking sessions with my pals, during the "world affairs" discussion period (between the football and complaining about the wives), I would often say that WW3 would not actually involve soldiers and weapons as we know it, but that China would simply send the command to close down all of the Huawei Routers, and disable all of the Electric Vehicles. I am now beginning to feel like I may have 'special powers"
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lazybloke
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During my Friday evening drinking sessions with my pals, during the "world affairs" discussion period (between the football and complaining about the wives), I would often say that WW3 would not actually involve soldiers and weapons as we know it, but that China would simply send the command to close down all of the Huawei Routers, and disable all of the Electric Vehicles. I am now beginning to feel like I may have 'special powers"
They've already tested the "battery self-destruct" signal on a number of ebikes and Richard Hammond's car
albion
Guru
Other way round too zm sure. The US may shift allegiances post election clouding the issue.
Major parts of Windows was written also in Israel as are loads of Microsoft tech systems.
Stuff you write will always have backdoors whether by intent or inadvertently.
dutchguylivingintheuk
Über Member
That and if it would have been smartphones i can see how an mod on kernel level that can circumvent all soc and other os protections would work, however pagers dont have that much advanced electronics in them. What we now know is that they added eplosives and a detonation devices triggered by the number message etc. (en than shorting the battery thus creating the detonation.
Agree on that last line, but sadly i think that died when Rabin was murdered they seem to be futher away from a peacefull soluttion than even if they did manage to remove Hamas and proxies fully.
Isreal has much more off it's own advanced hardware then Ukraine, that's why they also supply the west so you're ''UK/USA'' are still backing them logic is flawed, not to say they are still backed but that's also because it's a bit of a be dammned if you do, be dammed if you don't situation. The only one benefitting from something like that would be Iran, whom in turn most likely mess it up because of they sovjet area launchers are not exactly precise.
But i agree that there are countless situation where more international criticism would be good.
Alltough i won't call this one of them, this is an ''pre-emptive strike'' both Hezbollah and Iran are claiming to be taking revenge for longer, Isreal once again showed them they are much deeper on the them as they think. (because if they can detonate it, you can't tell me then haven't made a ''call home feature'' either. Every message they send with those pagers is on mossads desk.)
dutchguylivingintheuk
Über Member
Shifting alliance is a very big step, i don't see the US or UK for that matter do that, but there are lots of steps they can take to let Isreal officially known ''we don't like you killing civilians.''
And yes Israel is a knowledge powerhouse, although that doesn't nessacerry mean that the programmers writing on windows would have made backdoor and if they would have make these available to the Mossad.