Initial Thoughts on Attack Using Pagers Across Lebanon
Too early to draw conclusions, but the explosions do not appear consistent with typical battery fires/explosions associated with telecommunication devices or even larger power banks, and instead look like small explosives;
As the US compromises computer hardware on the factory floor with security back doors, Israel may have compromised a batch of pagers either at the factory or between manufacturing and distribution, placing a small remotely detonated explosive similar in size to a cherry bomb inside - this is pure speculation at this point;
The incident, regardless of the methods used, is a serious wake up call for nations and organizations about the central importance of technology and the need to be self-sufficient;
This technology should be approached in the same manner as arms and other high security items, not as consumer goods - technology and information space should both be seen as central to national security, not at its periphery;
Anything with a chain of custody that could potentially put a device or system in the enemy's hands before yours is a security threat;
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US Terrorism, Tech Products, and the Enduring Importance of Tech Sovereignty
As early as 2015, based on an already established US practice of compromising tech hardware on the factory floor, I warned about the absolute necessity for tech sovereignty;
My article (under my Ulson Gunnar pen name) noted:
"the NSA has once again given the world a reason to boycott US tech giants and those within America’s sphere of influence, and replace them with locally produced alternatives manufactured under tighter security controls."
Nations like Russia and China began using locally produced processors and operating systems because of this, but almost 10 years later nations and organizations are STILL buying technology like consumers, tech whose chain of custody remains entirely in the hands of hostile actors before arrival/use;
There was nothing sophisticated about this US/Israeli/Taiwan operation - it was made possible by nonexistent security policies, incompetence, complacency, and deep, profound ignorance;
Even after the US and its proxies literally blow up 1000s of people with Western-made technology, nations around the globe will continue buying/using it for government/organizational/private use;
America isn't dangerous because of strength or cleverness, it is dangerous because so many still lack the capacity to understand it is this dangerous to begin with;
The Lebanon pager attack was a malicious but 100% predictable and preventable act of terrorism, responsibility also rests with Lebanese/Hezbollah security agencies for their inexcusable lack of vigilance;
The US and its proxies have proven they constitute the greatest threat to human peace and prosperity - not just the US government, but the institutions and industry it represents/holds influence over - this latest attack demonstrates nothing that takes place within this sphere of influence is safe and avoiding/replacing it should be the top national security priority of every nation in the multipolar world;
For Russia and China, making alternatives available for the expanding multipolar world presents a vast opportunity;
The whole 2015 article can be read here:
https://journal-neo.su/2015/03/29/it-independence-is-national-security/
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Here is the essential paragraph of my 2015 article warning about the importance of tech sovereignty for those who don't have the time/energy to read the whole article...
I will be doing a new article/video on this topic.