Israel’s “Operation Below the Belt” caused 3,000 pagers used by Hezbollah to explode. Will this be the end of cell phones on airplanes?
Pagers have become the preferred means of communication since, unlike cell phones, pagers cannot be geolocated or traced. The attack will devastate Hezbollah’s morale and manpower.
But the ramifications of the attack, however warranted, extend far beyond the Middle East.
Wi-Fi is now ubiquitous on commercial aircraft providing access to entertainment systems and the internet through cell phones, tablets and computers.
The question now for security experts is whether a similar operation could be replicated on American or European cell phones. Could a tablet or a cell phone be remotely detonated at 30,000 feet?
Hezbollah may have been the target, but this may have the most significant effect on commercial air flights since 9/11.
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