And it seems retarded, you had access to all their comms and you just blow it up

That's because the headline is bullshit. They did a supply chain attack, put physical explosives in the pagers, and had them rigged to exploded when they received a specific message.

Once they had physical access they could have done a more sophisticated HW attack that would have given them the ability to intercept but that's more complex.

Or you could stuff it with explosive, send "B00M" to that phone number, and blow their nuts off. Also it's great psychological warfare for making them paranoid of absolutely everything.

And it seems retarded, you had access to all their comms and you just blow it up

That's because the headline is bullshit. They did a supply chain attack, put physical explosives in the pagers, and had them rigged to exploded when they received a special message.

Once they had physical access they could have done a more sophisticated HW attack that would have given them the ability to intercept but that's more complex.

Or you could stuff it with explosive, send "B00M" to that phone number, and blow their nuts off. Also it's great psychological warfare for making them paranoid of absolutely everything.

And it seems retarded, you had access to all their comms and you just blow it up

That's because the headline is bullshit. They did a supply chain attack, put physical explosives in the pagers, and had them rigged to exploded when they received a special message.

Once they had physical access they could have done a more sophisticated HW attack that would have given them the ability to intercept but one way pagers don't have transmitters in them. So you need to add those too. And have to be able to use the cell towers wherever they are, etc.

Or you could stuff it with explosive, send "B00M" to that phone number, and blow their nuts off. Also it's great psychological warfare for making them paranoid of absolutely everything.

And it seems retarded, you had access to all their comms and you just blow it up

That's because the headline is bullshit. They did a supply chain attack, put physical explosives in the pagers, and had them rigged to exploded when they received a special message.

Once they had physical access they could have done a more sophisticated HW attack that would have given them the ability to intercept but one way pagers don't have transmitters in them. So you need to add those too. And have to be able to use the cell towers wherever they are, etc.

Or you could stuff it with semtex, send "B00M" to that phone number, and blow their nuts off. Also it's great psychological warfare for making them paranoid of absolutely everything.