<div>On September 17, there were several explosions in <strong>pagers</strong> all around <strong>Lebanon.</strong> At least 37 people have died in Lebanon, including 10-year-old Fatima Jaafar, according to official information, and 3000 more have been injured.</div>
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<div>Do we really need to be concerned that tomorrow's smart watches or earphones will be configured to kill enemies?</div>
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<div><strong>Inventor and Author R Buckminster Fuller</strong> had once said and we quote, "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."&nbsp;<br><br></div>
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<div>No government agencies, groups, or national entities have accepted accountability for serial blasts during the initial days following their occurrence. However, the first thing data analyst Ralph Baydoun, who is stationed in Beirut, thought was, "Israelis must be having the names and locations of operatives using pagers." "It is a clear message of Israel to Hezbollah, that we can hurt you more than this," according to security expert Hamze Attar's view.</div>
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<div>"Israel conveyed a strong message to all its enemies spread across the globe, we can target anyone, wherever one may be, we can break into your communication system, and we can convert any subject on your body into a weapon," noted former British Army officer and bomb disposal specialist Krish Hunter.</div>
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<div>According to NR Jensen John, director of Armament Research Services in Australia, "<strong>Israel</strong> is capable of carrying out such attacks."</div>
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<div>These were the initial reactions of specialists to the serial blasts in pagers across Lebanon, but everyone is still perplexed, trying to piece together the facts and make a conclusion about how it was carried out.</div>
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<div>The first information to emerge shortly after the blasts was that these pagers were made by the Taiwan-based Apollo Company. The corporation promptly denied any involvement in the bomb and revealed that it granted a three-year licence to a Hungary-based company named BAC to produce pagers.</div>
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<div>According to <strong>Middle East</strong>'s news agencies, newspapers, and television channels citing sources, Israel established a shell firm and began producing pagers in Hungary two to three years ago.</div>
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<div>Because the country with deep assets in Hezbollah revealed intelligence indicating the group had stopped using mobile phones for communication and turned to pagers. Hezbollah had to do this because it had obtained information indicating that mobile phones could be sabotaged and repurposed into weapons to attack its commanders and cadre. &nbsp;</div>
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<div>There was another reason for this: in 1996, Hama's chief bomb maker, Yahya Aayyas, was assassinated by a mobile phone sabotage. His abilities earned him the nickname 'The Engineer' in both the Hamas and hostile camps.</div>
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<div><strong>How were pagers turned into bombs?</strong></div>
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<div>The security intelligence director of TrustedSec, Karlos Perez, claims that a pager's battery needs to be composed of two parts: one that may function as a battery and the other that must contain explosives. A pager has all the components needed to make a bomb; it has an explosive charger, battery, detonetar, trigger, and container. This is further explained by a bomb disposal expert from Europe.&nbsp;</div>
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<div>A few bomb specialists estimate that the pager must be packed with between fifty and sixty grams of explosive material. A coded message must have been transmitted over radio frequency to cause the explosion.</div>
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<div><strong>Why should one worry?</strong></div>
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<div>It is the history of technology and armaments. Arms and ammunition produced and invented for the protection of borders, society, and the nation, have eventually found their way into the hands of individuals or groups fighting against the system in the name of justice, freedom, and religious supremacy.&nbsp;</div>
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<div>It is important to keep in mind that enormous sums of money are spent on research and testing for every invention. Additionally, in the absence of a conflict, it is difficult to boost production and recoup investments made in the creation of technology and weapons, which means that arms and technology are either directly or indirectly given to rebels.</div>
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<div>If it's not sold, have you heard of the first copy? The greatest brand's newly designed shoe and wristwatches' replicas or duplicate copies are in the market a few weeks after they are introduced. We refer to that as the first copy. These days, extremists employ engineers, scientists, and technicians to build replicas' of &nbsp;weapons and equipment that are used by the army or agencies of their enemy nation. Reverse engineering is being used to produce drones, weapons, bombs, and missiles for replicating purposes.</div>
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<div>Drones, for instance, were developed in the wake of World War II. Initially, they were employed as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) primarily for information gathering and observation, but they were also later utilised to bomb specific targets. &nbsp;The US army deployed these kinds of UAVs for the first time in 2002 to eliminate six Al Qaeda members in Afghanistan.</div>
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<div>Subsequently, miniature drones were created and deployed to apply pesticides in agricultural fields and deliver food packets to areas impacted by flooding. Terrorists, however, are employing these tiny drones to attack enemy camps or provide weapons and drugs to agents operating across the border.</div>
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<div>In his research report titled "The Role of Drone in Future Terrorists Attack," American Army analyst Major Thomas Pledger noted that between 1998 and 2018, terrorists planned and tried 14 drone strikes.</div>
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<div>Drones have been used by terrorist organisations with bases in Pakistan since 2020 to deliver weapons and drugs to agents in Kashmir. According to recent reports from Manipur, the Kukis and Meiteis, two rival warring tribes, are bombing one another's residential regions with drones.</div>
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<div>One illustration of this is drones. Someone who has ever turned a pager into a bomb has given radicals a new perspective on the idea that weapons can come in any shape or form.</div>
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<div>Imagine that a pager containing 50&ndash;60 grams of explosives might kill or gravely hurt someone. Experts in intelligence and security believe that one does not require manufacturing facilities to create a bomb of this magnitude; even an electronics supply chain may be manipulated to turn products into bombs. It's said that all it takes to turn cordless earphones into explosives is five to ten grams of explosive, which is more than enough to do harm to the ears and possibly even the brain. Which is feasible while in transit or being delivered by courier.</div>
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<div><strong>Do you feel alarmed by this theoretical notion now?w</strong>e should all be concerned because we now carry devices in our daily lives that include components needed to make a bomb, such as laptops, tablets, cell phones, earphones, smart watches, and smart cars.&nbsp;</div>
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Israel's fight against terrorism is advancing technology.

In Lebanon, Pager became a bomb. Smart watches or earphones next?

Israel's fight against terrorism is advancing technology.

September 23, 2024 | 08:42 IST