Summary
- The lethal hack of Hezbollah’s Asian-branded pagers and walkie-talkies has exposed the murky market for older technologies.
- Counterfeiting, surplus inventories, and complex contract manufacturing deals make it difficult to identify the source of a product.
- Companies at the center of the incident struggle to determine how and when the devices were weaponized.
- Taiwan-based Gold Apollo and Japanese company Icom deny involvement in producing the explosive devices.