Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Few possibilities: 1) Prelude to a war that throws them off balance (looking unlikely) 2) The vulnerability was about to be discovered so had to be used immediately
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kia
@kia
3) this was a counter to defuse a hezbollah operation that was happening at that same exact moment.
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alex
@proxystudio.eth
5) to distract from an intelligence failure / military fuckup elsewhere Israel has also been attempting to regain deterrence regionally, primary impact here to hez capabilities seems psychological not material (aside from reported civilian casualties)
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MJC
@mjc716
lmao what are you talking about they disabled hundreds and possibly thousands of military operatives huge psychological impact too ofc
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kia
@kia
this looks to be more of a disruption tool than an incapacitating one. this is also equivalent of a zero day. once you expose it it's gone. so if it was me, i'd use it at a critical point in time not just randomly to send a message or something.
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MJC
@mjc716
yea there’s clearly escalation on the border and it’s a deterrent signal at a critical time (“what else do they have”) but they also disabled hundreds of military operatives for some period of time likely multi dimensional
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kia
@kia
i think my point is still lost. if all this can do is "disable for some period of time" and it's something that only can be used once then: i'd only use it when that "period of time" is a critical one, not a random one. which then brings up the original question i was asking: why now? implying that the other side might've been doing something that we don't have info on but it was important enough to trigger this zero-day like implant.
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MJC
@mjc716
trying to preempt an all out war at a moment of escalation is a pretty solid reason also likely that hez cycles out devices, so it may not have been on the table forever
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