On: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in ...

[alistairSH]

These aren't normal retail pagers, like the world uses (or used to use) for pager-duty? And Hezbollah maintains its own network infrastructure?

[tptacek → alistairSH]

Yes. Hezbollah is essentially the armed forces of Lebanon (there is an official Lebanese army, but it is smaller than Hezbollah).

[BurningFrog → tptacek]

You can also think of them as an Iranian army occupying southern Lebanon.

[alistairSH → tptacek]

I know what Hezbollah is, I’m surprised they maintain stand-alone pager infrastructure apart from the system in use by the rest of thecpeolle

[tptacek → alistairSH]

Maybe they don't? But they definitely have their own phone infrastructure, and since the switch to pagers was entirely about opsec, it would be very weird if they were dependent on civilian telecoms infrastructure for them.