From Nasrallah championed use of pagers for Hezbollah members amid hacking fears – NYT
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks in a remote address on August 6, 2024. (Screen capture; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah had for years championed the terror group using pagers to communicate rather than phones, the New York Times reports.
The report says US intelligence estimated that Nasrallah believed it was a safer form of communication as pagers do not reveal the user’s location.
The terror chief was additionally concerned by messages received from unnamed allies that Israel had improved its capabilities to hack into phones, US intelligence officials tell the newspaper.
Nasrallah therefore banned cellphones from Hezbollah meetings, and ordered that the terror group’s plans never be communicated via phone, including encrypted messaging apps, the report says.
Nasrallah is expected to give a speech at 5 p.m.
