Hertz machine worked

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There are those situations when you choke in the middle of laughing. That's how we made fun of boss Jezda when he talked about the "hertz machine" which with strength from 106 hertz destroys telephone receiver and the eardrums of the person who answers the phone, causing bleeding in the brain and, consequently, death. Physicists and pathologists probably laughed the loudest, because the telephones of the time (bananas, for example) could hardly have caused such consequences just from the sound coming from the handset, nor would the eardrums have been the first to be hit. But we might have laughed at Yezda if he had claimed that pager it can explode, so now it's not funny anymore.

Last week's attack on Lebanon's Shiite paramilitary and political organization Hezbollah had all the makings of a James Bond movie. It is believed to have been carried out by the Israeli intelligence service, which has not been officially confirmed, and was carried out via pagers and walkie-talkies that had previously been factory-installed with explosives. It was activated after receiving a certain message, and taking into account the activities of the pager users, everyone received the same message at the same time. That's why it was not possible to warn them not to use them, whoever clicked to read, got hurt.

Previously, the leader of Hezbollah ordered his comrades to get rid of their mobile phones, not only them but also everyone in their family, because these devices can eavesdrop on them. Your wives are spies, your children are spies, he told them, explaining the danger. They switched to pagers, which are ordinary receivers of messages and no one can determine where they are or what they broadcast, in contrast to a mobile phone that exchanges information with the network and must have a microphone and, most often, a camera. You don't need to service put it in the chandelier and the ashtray, you voluntarily wear listening devices even where the emperor goes on foot.

And it conveniently reminded us of the good old days before smartphones when, supposedly, phone tapping was avoided by removing the battery from the device. Although even then there were those who claimed that the devices have another battery (capacitor) that maintains the system and can provide current for listening, and it cannot be removed because it is integrated into the board.

On the one hand, a man who does not carry a phone or any other communication technology could protect himself from eavesdropping and espionage, not only that carried out by some intelligence services but also that suspected of being used by social networks for marketing purposes. But that would mark him in a society where the mobile phone is no longer a status symbol, but a means for normal life, paying for parking and transportation. A person without a phone is already suspicious, let alone a whole family, without the Amish in question.

On the other hand, the idea of ​​installing explosives in a device, and then somehow planting a box of such devices on a security-interested user, set a new, dangerous precedent and gave ideas to many who would sow fear. Especially if you don't buy a new mobile phone from an authorized store, where it is the most expensive. It is enough for a few randomly distributed pieces to detonate and fear will be everywhere, as well as a demand to reexamine everything we do and consider normal. As in the case of air traffic after 11/XNUMX. Well, it is enough for someone to just announce that he planted such phones.

All that was needed was proof that the "hertz machine" existed and was working. Now we have that evidence in abundance.