"Your phone is their agent," Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in February, referring to Israel. The constant digital assault has pushed Hezbollah to abandon smartphones for pagers and walkie-talkies.
The commercial spyware industry has shown it is possible to fully compromise target smartphones by exploiting chains of vulnerabilities in their mobile operating systems.
I'd hazard a guess that the only reason we aren't hearing about exploding laptops is that they're collecting too much intelligence from those," says Jake Williams, vice president of research and development at Hunter Strategy.
The pagers and personal radios could pretty reliably be expected to stay in the hands of Hezbollah operatives, but more general-purpose electronics like laptops could not.
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