Reminding of my most cited academic paper… one of the co-authors was a tenured professor about to go on sabbatical and so he was happy to have a fresh paper to present at all his sabbatical tour stops. That paper picked up so many cites from him doing that! (He wrote around two paragraphs of the 30 page paper but we were still all very happy to have him basically running the paper’s marketing campaign all by himself!)
Do you want some deeply studied anthropological journal article on “The use of pagers in Lebanese society “?
Do you know of any civilians anywhere in the world that currently use pagers?
Who had the pagers and why they had the pagers is almost derivable from first principles at this point, never mind the international journalism on the subject.
It was astonishingly humane especially considering how effective it was:
1.) Communication network completely destroyed (anyone with a working pager in Lebanon has thrown it in the garbage).
2.) Most targets, while severely injured and even blinded, are still alive - I'm sure their families prefer this to them being dead.
3.) If you are an enemy of Israel, what can you even do now? You cannot assume your phones or your furniture or even your cat is safe. Any one of these things could detonate and kill or maim you at any time. And you can't trust anyone in your organization either.
I deplore zionism, but that doesn't change how humane and effective and incredibly precise this attack was. Probably its humane-ness was not particularly on purpose, and was more a side-effect of the constraints they were working with (hiding explosives in a small pager while still maintaining its correct operation), but that doesn't take away from how much better this is for all the casualties compared to, for example, Hamas casualties in Gaza.
Every Linux box inside AWS, Azure, and GCP and other cloud providers that retains the default admin sudo-able user (e.g., “ec2”) and is running ssh on port 22.
I bet they intended for their back door to eventually be merged into the base Amazon Linux image.
I think the original author (or their heirs) can take away that MIT license during a special “copyright termination” window 35 years after granting it at least in the USA.