Because that way they avoid any competition.
Thing is, businesses like Google's ads are not linear. If you can track 90% of people 90% of the time, your ads are much much more valuable to advertisers than a company that only tracks 70% of the people 90% of the time. So it makes sense to create a moat by literally shitting money on everyone around you.
Think about the opposite: if Apple would switch to DDG by default, most people would leave it at that. And that would mean, a significant chunk of the US search traffic is gone. Europe and the rest of the world are not that apple-heavy, but Apple users are rich power users (on average), these are extremely valuable.
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.
No.
Google pays to keep its monopoly on search.
Chrome, Android, etc. all are just tools to funnel views on their ads.
If Mozilla would fold, Google would have a monopoly on browsers, which could cause problems for them. So they finance fake competition.
No other company could pay even close to that amount of money.
Ich frag mich immer wieder, was die Politik sich von solchen Maßnahmen erhofft, wenn gleichzeitig die reguläre Arbeit der Sicherheitsbehörden aufgrund von Personalmangel nicht erledigt werden kann.
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.
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.
Eine Menge der Kommentare hier, inklusive deinem, sind perfekte Beispiele von #NotAllMen.
Und was ist daran falsch?
Im Ernst, überleg doch mal, was du hier verlangst. Mir wird ausschließlich aufgrund einer Zugehörigkeit, die ich mir nicht ausgesucht habe, etwas vorgeworfen. Und wenn ich nicht Täter bin, soll ich doch wenigstens was machen. Ja was denn? Soll ich beim Nachbarn klingeln und fragen, ob er seine Frau schlägt?
Reflektier dich mal selber: Ich kann deinen Forderungen nicht nachkommen. Das ist nicht möglich. Ich kann der beste Mann der Welt sein und trotzdem wird man mir aufgrund meines Geschlechts das vorwerfen was hier steht. Egal wie toll ich persönlich bin, egal wie sehr ich mich gegen Gewalt einsetze. Denn der nächsten Frau gegenüber bin ich nur ein Mann damit böse.
Nochmal als Vergleich: nimm deinen Text und übertrag ihn auf zB Muslime. Natürlich sind nicht alle Muslime Terroristen, aber distanzieren sollten sie sich schon! Klingt weird, oder?
Deine gesamte Einlassung hier strotzt nur so vor inhaltslosen Phrasen, die letzte nur den immer gleichen Inhalt reproduzieren: Mann=böse. Und das ist extrem gefährlich und du siehst es nicht mal.
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