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why do you think they did it now?

like if you had such a thing implanted, you wouldn't just do it at a random time right? 

you'd likely do it at a tactically critical point in time. what would that be?

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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after watching the 60 minutes
you were right about 2

"Halfway home and my pager still blowin' up"

3) this was a counter to defuse a hezbollah operation that was happening at that same exact moment.

Or maybe just because they could. That is a very chilling thing to do.

What are the actual odds that there was a device implemented vs some kind of exploit that overloaded the battery?

X Spaces recording of an excellent discussion about the brilliant Israeli intelligence operation which took thousands of Hezbollah operatives offline by simultaneously exploding pagers and walkie talkies. 

https://x.com/i/spaces/1OdJrXwljzpKX

https://warpcast.com/outofelement/0x7e1161ef

Them being thrown off balance is not unlikely. Aside from physical damage to hundreds of their fighters the psychological effect can't be underestimated. 

1. Now afraid of all devices
2. Communication became very hard
3. Have been outed to the locals who aren't very fond of them

It's meant for a specific time of war. Because it was found out, they used it now.  More explosions happening at the moment,