Those explosions aren't just batteries, says Jake Williams, vice president of research and development at Hunter Strategy who formerly worked for the US National Security Agency. Based on the reporting, these pagers were likely interdicted by Israeli authorities and modified with explosives. This highlights the risks of supply chain security, especially in places where technology is harder to ship to. Williams points out that such an operation would likely involve operatives on both tech distribution and Hezbollah procurement sides. You compromise the supply chain, but you don’t want thousands of explosive pagers running around Lebanon.
It's unlikely that hacking was involved, as it's likely that explosive material had to be inside the pagers to cause such an effect, says Lukasz Olejnik, an independent consultant and visiting senior research fellow at King's College London’s Department of War Studies. Reports mention the delivery of new pagers recently, so perhaps the delivery was compromised. This suggests a potential vulnerability in the logistics and distribution chain that could be exploited.
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