By Ekaterina Blinova – Sputnik – 19.09.2024
A series of blasts reportedly involving Taiwanese, Japanese, American, and European-made devices in Lebanon on September 17 and 18 have prompted grave security concerns worldwide.
“Weaponizing mobile communications devices will fill many people with horror and fear,” Marc Ostwald, chief economist at ADM Investor Services International, told Sputnik. “It may, at the margin, dampen demand.”
The Lebanese government attributed the attack to Israel, accusing Tel Aviv of an outright act of terrorism.
Given almost “unconditional support” provided to Israel by some Western countries, some of them may have colluded with Tel-Aviv, said Hasan Abdullah, analyst and researcher at Global Security and Strategy Institute.
“The US is going to be the country that’s going to generate the greatest trust deficit with their customers, primarily because of its very close collaboration with Israel,” Abdullah told Sputnik.
The US has long been one of the largest suppliers of communication equipment, including for military needs, to the Global South, the pundit noted, adding that the recent blasts could alienate the developing world from Western producers.
Earlier, researcher Mehmet Rakipoglu and military analyst Alexei Leonkov told Sputnik they did not rule out US involvement in the Lebanon attack.
The Intercept reported on Wednesday that the US military had explored the possibility of planting remote-activated bombs in innocuous devices starting from the 1960s.
Middle East and other developing countries could eventually turn to Russian, Chinese or Turkish tech firms out of fear that the US involvement could compromise their security, Abdullah said.
Ostwald and Abdullah believe that several measures could be taken to stop the covert bombings, starting with investigations into manufacturing processes and ending with the deployment of international watchdogs to oversee production and supply.
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In depth investigations into this attack using technology need to be implemented quickly. The who ,what, where and when as well as the obvious HOW must be identified as soon as possible or people will be taking a worried approach to any technology developed by the US/Israeli alliance and it’s lackeys.
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I stopped buying Intel years ago because of Israeli partial ownership. I didn’t do it because I thought my computer would explode. I did it because I can’t support Jewish Supremacists who steal the property of others and mass murder them.
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I listened to an interview with Dmitry Orlov last night, and he says silicon valley corporates (Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc) are extremely angry with the Israelis now because 3rd world users are abandoning US technology like the plague because they know it’s full of Israeli-created software.
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Got rid of my HP devices because it was they who supported the Israeli checkpoints. Have tried to get rid of Google and my mobile is an old Apple Iv6 because I was trying to get rid of all Smart technology.
Sadly the whole of the western societies seem to be addicted to these devices and unlike papasha 408 I don’t know how to get round them, I can’t even find out how to get my hands on a Linux using the ubuntu elementery nor any other means. Still can’t access my old Yandex browser!
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Mine was a hardware choice, Mohandeer. I chose an AMD CPU because I couldn’t find an Israeli connection. But, as far as Software goes, I have the same problems as you.
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