Schneier describes the paranoia-inducing effect of the operation as a kind of ongoing "tax" on Hezbollah as an organization. "There are a lot of things you can't do if you can't trust your comms," he says.
Schneier compares the end result to the nearly incommunicado state of a hunted figure like Osama bin Laden, who in his final years was reduced to sending messages only via the human couriers.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has warned about the surveillance dangers of smartphones, urging followers to "break it, bury it, lock it up in a metal box" to avoid Israeli surveillance.
Creating distrust of communication devices within Hezbollah may well be Israel's purposeful tactic of "preparing the battle space" ahead of impending Israeli military operations against Lebanon.
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