that the way it worked was that there were a large number of people monitoring the cameras in a "call" center

I seem to recall that anyway

This deters ONE bad actor.
With a monetary consequence others would have been deterred

sigh

Internet whack-a-mole continues

Faster? "simpler"? Cheaper?

Well, for the developer probably. But the bean counters caught on after the pandemic waned.
Those things the devs love carried a HUGE cost, far more than the business could sustain at the profitability level demanded by equity funds/investors. Individuals can't afford to do these things that way and business, more and more, has financial models that call BS on the devs.

Something I was taught a log time ago; Good engineering isn't about gold plated, whiz bang stuff, but about cost effective solutions... Even when competition is pushing for "faster, faster, faster"

A piece of gear known to be used and in possession by "military" personnel is NOT the same as a bus adjacent to said personnel. This is a legit strike as were the pagers.

We can presume with near certainty that they weren't walking into some local retailer and buying them off the shelf. Some position (think supply Sargent/quartermaster corp) within the organization was buying them in bulk for distribution within the organization.

That made it easy to make this a VERY surgical strike that speaks of long term and exquisite planning.
Yes, there were bystanders and a few units may have found their way into innocent hands.

As other have mentioned, this was done in a far more considered manner than the rockets hammas and hezbola have been habitually lobbing into Israeli cities.

For the record, I'm no fan of Israeli right wingers who steal land in Gaza. This has fueled this and driven the people of Gaza to equally despicable measures.

I am a fan of very good engineering. This was good engineering. So was the stunt of using power para gliders. Brilliant technically. Humanly despicable.

There is a LOT of humanly despicable things in the world.

As someone with a career of over 40 years in networking I can authoritatively state... You're an idiot.

If it WAS operating "standalone" it would have no connectivity and be pointless. The article makes clear it was not standalone.

Connected to the internet, the potential to reveal the ships location was enormous and made it an incredible security breach regardless of it's connection to ships systems.

"Their ransom demands were dramatically weakened by the fact that they did not have access to any compromising data. It was also clear that they believed ARRL had extensive insurance coverage that would cover a multi-million-dollar ransom payment,"

And prosecute the insurance bookies!

The burden of proof is on the accuser. They have to prove their presumption.

Idiot

They used to arrogantly tell the truth and looked like sociopaths.
They've learned to lie

They PRESUME their materiel was used for training. PROVE it.
And that because it was presumed to be used, pirated (they keep records of who bought their books?!)

Remember innocent until proven guilty? The burden of proof is on the accuser.

I got my popcorn.

It's already in the law

It doesn't matter HOW the collusion is accomplished, it's collusion
This is a replay of the "with a computer" patent "flash".
Now it's "with an algorithm"

Was a time that we thought of legal minds as sharp.
How did they get so dull?

I guess a few still do but "AI" is the equivalent of being able to simply buy paints and pastels.

They're still looking at the old master works trying to figure out "how the hell did he get THAT color"

A herd of class action lawyers you say?

Pay walled sources

Hold my beer

Oh!!! Oh!!!
Can I mod this up?