“We will not be a big firm however we’re a accountable one. That is very embarrassing,” is how Hsu Ching-kuang, founder and president of Taiwanese firm Gold Apollo, whose pagers exploded and injured about 4,000 Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon and Syria yesterday, killing a number of of them, responded this morning, when Taiwanese police raided the corporate’s premises. Talking to Reuters, Hsu denied that his small firm, which employs simply 40 folks in New Taipei, had produced the gadgets concerned within the assault. He stated that they had been produced by a European firm known as BAC, which was licensed to make use of Gold Apollo’s model. “The product was not ours. It was solely that it had our model on it,” Hsu advised reporters, based on Reuters. Gold Apollo’s web site was taken down shortly after Hsu issued his denial.
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Gold Apollo was based in 1995, within the heyday of pagers, as a provider of gadgets that displayed numbers solely, such because the variety of the caller or a numeric code. It went on to supply intercoms, radio transmitters, LED screens, and alpha-numeric pagers such because the AR-924 mannequin, which was the gadget in yesterday’s assault. Earlier than it was eliminated, Gold Apollo’s web site boasted that the corporate’s gadgets had been utilized by hospitals, eating places, and emergency groups all around the world. The corporate’s Wikipedia entry states that it distributes its merchandise primarily in Europe, East Asia, the US, and lots of international locations within the Center East, amongst them Israel, Lebanon, Iran, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. The corporate is privately held, and based on the Tradewheel web site, its annual income doesn’t exceed $10 million.
The Hezbollah terrorist group purchased hundreds of pagers as a way to keep away from utilizing newer and extra hackable technique of communication that might betray the consumer’s location, and as a way to cross encrypted messages. The messages will be intercepted, however finding customers who obtain messages solely is taken into account inconceivable. Hezbollah sought a safe communication channel, however now its vulnerability has change into clear.
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