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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

The Hamas onslaught wasn’t supposed to be possible: A massive, deadly 2G attack on a 5G security state. The consequences are still reverberating.

The deadly weekend attacks by Hamas have cast a nation into mourning, forced a political reckoning — and are prompting a shocked reconsideration of one of Israel’s greatest points of pride, its technical sophistication.

On Saturday, Israel’s vaunted $1 billion security barrier on the Gaza border failed, as Hamas fighters used simple bulldozers to plow through and armed paragliders to soar above it. Barrages of rockets penetrated Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. And Israel’s surveillance system — a dense network of drones, cameras and cyber snooping — was proven fatally insufficient, with Hamas able to both work around and overwhelm it.

“The most common question is, where were the Israeli surveillance drones? The answer is everyone who should have called those drones was already dead,” said Israeli tech journalist Assaf Gilead. The attack also sent shockwaves through the defense establishment in Washington and Europe, not least because Israel has become a key supplier of security and defense technology across the West.

Within Israel, failure of the military’s security technology fed into a broader sense of abandonment among citizens and victims, who called into news programs and texted family for help while gunmen rampaged for hours, unimpeded by Israeli soldiers.

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[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago

A massive, deadly 2G attack on a 5G security state

The fuck is this 🤓

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Verizon is backing the Israelis, and Mint Mobile is backing the Hamas.

[-] ashar@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

It means that we don’t really know what happened or why but we need to publish an article. Also we need to mention Iran so that we can keep building pressure to attack a new country.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago

bad take. it's like saying that tanks are obsolete because infantry-portable antitank weapons exist

[-] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

People said precisely that during the early part of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

[-] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Ends up arm chair generals are not competent. /ShockedPikachu

[-] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

2G attack on a 5G state

I'm dying to cringe.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I bet Trump told Putin about a US Military detected weakness in Iron Dome or straight up gave Russia the USA's invasion scenario plans for Israel.

EDIT: You're still a bootlicking little loser, @Satelllliiiiiiiteeee.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that "weakness" is called rocket spam and it's always been there, and it exists in every air defense system really. the intelligence about hamas massing weapons also was there, but it was not acted upon

otoh it seems that hamas planned their offensive with input from iran

this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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