Why WERE Hezbollah using 80s-style pagers?

How spooked terror group ditched smart phones in favour of low-tech gadgets fearing Israeli hack - only for security measure to backfire spectacularly


Bodies fill the corridors of Beirut hospitals this morning as doctors desperately try to help those caught in a mass explosion of pagers across Lebanon yesterday.

Hezbollah operatives appeared to have been caught off guard by the detonation of thousands of pagers on Tuesday - an unprecedented attack on a technology brought in to replace mobile phones feared susceptible to Israeli hacking.


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