I’d prefer not to have any smell, but that is apparently really hard to do.

And why do all products for men have to look like I’m cosplaying a sci-fi tactical commando?

Germany has Spaghetti ice cream, but that’s at least real ice cream just made to look like spaghetti.

I feel like there’s a very fine balance for the effort required to publish a package.

Too easy and you get npm.

Too hard and you get an empty repo.

I feel like Java is actually doing a relatively good job here. Most packages are at least documented a bit, though obviously many are outdated.

The leadership on both sides would not only lose power, but likely end up in prison or dead, if there’s ever peace.

They won’t do anything towards a peaceful solution.

I don’t need your location.

Pager transmissions contain a sender and a receiver. That’s all the information you need. If a known Hisbollah sender sends to a receiver, that receiver obviously has some ties to Hisbollah.

By tracking who sent what to whom?

If you know the phone number of a Hisbollah member and they send messages to a set of pagers, these are likely Hisbollah pagers. If you do that to several phone numbers, you get a pretty comprehensive list of members. You don’t need to know, where exactly they are. That’s simply not relevant.

And again: if it’s a supply chain attack, you don’t even need these contacts. Just a single entry point into the supply chain of the organization.

So, what exactly do you think would be a proper reaction here?

Hisbollah is de facto a state actor in Lebanon. Lebanon is doing nothing against a group whose declared goal is the destruction of Israel, including shooting unguided rockets into civilian areas.

Now, how would you address that? Unless you have any idea how else to solve this, you’re simply talking out of your ass.

Maybe the guys shooting rockets at Israel?

Don’t play dumber than you are.

No, they are not.

As I wrote, you can track which pager got paged when. And you can identify who uses that pager. The pager itself does not need to transmit anything for that.

You obviously don’t know how tracking works.

…and you know which telephone numbers send data to the pager and at which time. That is sufficient to track or identify individuals.

If this is a supply chain attack, the attacker already knows, which pagers are part of the organization they want to target.

What this thread here shows really well, is that the general population vastly underestimates the abilities of intelligence agencies and technology in general.

Not that I think the Israel is the good guy in this conflict, but your argument is pretty weak.

Pager are designed to be trackable. If you have such deep access to these devices, you know exactly who got called by whom and when.

Yes, there will be collateral damage, but that’s almost a given in any armed conflict.

If the vast majority of people are affected, is it really “extreme” anymore?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

Nope, 65th place, slightly behind the US and the country of old men: Albania.

And a whole lot of content that I frankly would have preferred not to have seen.

When you’re 12 and your parents have no idea what you’re doing, you’ll end up in very dark corners.

It’s the same in China.

The best argument against Rand is just listening to her for 5min.

Very rarely do you see such a mixture of arrogance, self-righteousness and utter lack of logic in a single person.

And who does that?

I think you don’t really get my point. I’m not arguing that there are no ways to archive data. I’m arguing that there are no technologies available for average Joe.

It is hardly a good strategy to basically set up half a datacenter at home.

Thin concrete slabs are extremely brittle.

Is it? It’s rather expensive and would you really know, if the data is gone or corrupted?

You’d have to download every single file in certain intervals and check it. That’s not really low complexity.

But what actually is “archival”?

Like, what technology normal person has access to counts at least as enthusiast level archival?

Magnetic tape, optical media, flash, HDD all rot away, potentially within frighteningly short timeframes and often with subtle bitrot.