• fullsquare@awful.systems
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    5 days ago

    they maybe used it to get entry into hezbollah supply chain, and then for monitoring aftermath

    and yeah this is a blatant lie:

    In a recent interview, the former head of the Israeli Mossad, Yossi Cohen, revealed that Israel has similar “booby-trapped and spy-manipulated equipment” in “all the countries you can imagine”.

    an attack that was a combination of supply chain infiltration, psyops (convincing hezbollah to ditch phones), surveillance (lending credence to the former), mass tampering, that got planned for a decade, took well over a half year to execute, and now will be useless because people know about it, and will try to mitigate (by looking inside), used as an one-shot chance against strategic adversary, but yeah there are thousands of phones with bombs in moldova, dude trust me

    this is propaganda fluff for israeli nationalists

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      5 days ago

      Maybe they mean backdoors in CPUs (most non-Chinese CPUs are designed partly in Israel; they have a lot of semiconductor engineers there), or other rumoured capacities (such as the alleged backdoor in airport bomb scanners that returns a false negative if the item being scanned contains a specific pattern).