[MilCom] Hezbollah Cracks Israeli SINCGARS Radios

[Punworg]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wocode184896831sep18,0,3091818.story?coll=ny-worldnews-print

>From the article:

Hezbollah eavesdropping teams had trained Hebrew
speakers who could quickly translate intercepted
Israeli transmissions and relay the information to
local commanders, the Hezbollah official said. Even
before the war, the group had dozens of translators
working in its southern Beirut offices to monitor
Israeli media and phone intercepts.

With frequency-hopping and encryption, most radio
communications become very difficult to hack. But
troops in the battlefield sometimes make mistakes in
following secure radio procedures and can give an
enemy a way to break into the frequency-hopping
patterns. That might have happened during some battles
between Israel and Hezbollah, according to the
Lebanese official. Hezbollah teams likely also had
sophisticated reconnaissance devices that could
intercept radio signals even while they were
frequency-hopping.

During one raid in southern Lebanon, Israeli special
forces said they found a Hezbollah office equipped
with jamming and eavesdropping devices. Israeli
officials said the base also had detailed maps of
northern Israel, lists of Israeli patrols along the
border and cell phone numbers for Israeli commanders.

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