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Hezbollah Hacked Israeli Military Radio
florescent_beige writes, "Newsday is reporting that Hezbollah was able to monitor secure Israeli military communications, perhaps using technology supplied by Iran, during the recent Lebanon war. A former Israeli general, speaking anonymously, called the results 'disastrous' for Israel. The story reports that an anonymous Lebanese source said that Hezbollah might have taken advantage of Israeli soldiers' mistakes in following secure radio procedures. The radio gear uses frequency hopping and encryption." The article identifies the Israeli communications equipment as the US-designed Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System.
You mean you actually think the US government cares about security? How naïve.
One is that you have to remember that though somewhat unified, groups like Hezbollah are not military and are essentially made up of a bunch of thugs. They don't have the kind of strict discipline that one might associate with a normal military. There can be factions that don't agree with the leadership and so on. For that matter there may be groups that call themselves Hezbollah that the actual Hezbollah doesn't think is affiliated with them.
The other thing you have to remember is that terrorist type groups have decided to play a PR war. Makes sense since they have no chance militarily. I mean Hezbollah could take every fighter they have, the best arms they have, and launch an assault on Israel. The net result would be no more Hezbollah. So they play a PR war game, which means trying to make your enemies look weak and stupid. Well this kind of thing would play in to that, they just perhaps didn't think of the implications.
Or maybe they knew that Israel knew that their communications had been compromised, so decided that they'd use it for propaganda value since the cat was already out of the bag.
Either way you can't apply more classical military logic to the situation because it's not two militaries facing off.
Think! Think a little! Who made those radios and who uses them other than Isreal. The USA Army uses them in Iraq. This means the US Army battlefield radios are hacked. This is a may as well give up and die for US Troups and explains much of what is going on in Iraq. Another fine case of D. Rumsfeld and his army of one thinking. Single point failure is death to any group. If I need to explain this any further....!
Remember all the talk after 9/11/2001 about needing all radios to chat one to another!? It works now!
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