• @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    Has there been any news about how Israel’s able cut service in Gaza? I assumed at first they were bombing/sabotaging infrastructure but they seem to be able to turn service on and off at will like they’re flipping a switch.

    • Ab_intra
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      161 year ago

      Everything is run trough Israel, even water so that’s how they can stop it.

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        41 year ago

        But from what I’ve seen even the service providers don’t seem to know how they’re doing it.

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          It’s fairly easy to do so. They just simply disconnect it from their side. Either that or they use someckind of EMP but that would also affect their own equipment so I doubt that is they way they are doing it.

          And if it’s not obvious Israel will never comrfirm how.

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            41 year ago

            I guess? I honestly don’t know. I haven’t really seen reporting saying that either though.

            During the first blackout there was wide speculation that it was bombing, then some shock when Israel just turned service on when the US told them to. Almost nothing since (that I’ve seen), except to report when a blackout is occurring. I’ve been curious about it since then.

            I could be wrong but I suspect that it’d be in some explainer piece if they just had direct access to the infrastructure. I agree that sabotage with something like an EMP would be too imprecise. I’d speculate that they must have some backdoor into those systems.

              • @orrk
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                21 year ago

                not through jammers hey can’t

                  • @orrk
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                    21 year ago

                    Do you think that Israel doesn’t have technology from the 70s? high gain directional antenna and a noise generator aren’t new high-tech super-technology.

                    the only reason we see distributed EW instead of massive stations is that a more advanced army could field weapons that could threaten these things.

                    here’s a link to the Wikipedia article for you:

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming