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  On 9/17/2024 at 6:05 PM, Grassmarket said:

Really?  How odd.  I remember they were a great wonder at my work when we started using them in the late 80s, but even by about the mid 90s they were sitting in dusty, forgotten corners.  I guess there must be some legal requirement.   

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More than 75% of companies :d 

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/over-three-quarters-german-firms-124211118.html

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  On 9/17/2024 at 6:11 PM, heywoodu said:
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The story calls it a 60 year old technology - the first real fax machine predates cinema!  But yeah, as I thought, German laws on signature authentication are more rigorous than ours. I bought my flat with a phone call, signed a few days later.

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Smartphones and social medias are just a way of spy and infiltration 

 

so the only secure place is North Korea 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  On 9/17/2024 at 6:38 PM, bestmen said:

Incredible what is hapenning in Lebanon today  , 8 dead + 2500 injures after explosion of smartphones 

 

 

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Pagers, not smartphones. Apparently the terrorists had already stopped using smartphones, because of the risk of being hacked, so they had switched to using pagers, a more simple technology. But then their shipment of thousands of pagers was replaced by pagers with a little...extra touch.

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  On 9/18/2024 at 4:34 AM, heywoodu said:

Pagers, not smartphones. Apparently the terrorists had already stopped using smartphones, because of the risk of being hacked, so they had switched to using pagers, a more simple technology. But then their shipment of thousands of pagers was replaced by pagers with a little...extra touch.

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It's time to switch to some old nokia :p

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  On 9/18/2024 at 10:55 AM, Gianlu33 said:

It's time to switch to some old nokia :p

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Plenty of 2G phones on the market still, will cost you about $20.  Or a bit more with the special falafel sauce. 

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  On 9/18/2024 at 10:55 AM, Gianlu33 said:

It's time to switch to some old nokia :p

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They need to buy those somewhere though, so if just like the pagers they get intercepted....whoops and b00m :p 

 

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Hezbollah's failure to keep up payments on their maintenance contracts continues to create problems, and not just annoying phone calls from the Call Centre.

 

Hezbollah's handheld radios explode in second wave of remote-detonated attacks on terror group (nypost.com)

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  On 9/18/2024 at 4:34 AM, heywoodu said:

Pagers, not smartphones. Apparently the terrorists had already stopped using smartphones, because of the risk of being hacked, so they had switched to using pagers, a more simple technology. But then their shipment of thousands of pagers was replaced by pagers with a little...extra touch.

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They are not terrorists , they are league of dedense against cancer of Satanyahu 

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