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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alex
@proxystudio.eth
Most obvious motivating factor seems to be general deterrence (what else do they have? Will it challenge hez power domestically) Also relevant is reduction of activity outside the corridors in Gaza, general shift of focus to the north
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