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|Abstract=The September 2024 ‘pager attacks’ in Lebanon and Syria marked a new modus operandi of remote warfare: The achievement of military objectives through covert mass weaponisation of seemingly harmless objects. Analysing brief interviews conducted in the hours and days after the attacks in the streets of Lebanon, I focalise the formation and enactment of new, socially sanctionable practices for engaging with suddenly potentially lethal consumer technology. My paper shows that the impact of the attacks extended well beyond the target devices and immediate casualties, causing a spillover effect of distrust from targeted devices to electronic devices more broadly.
 
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Author(s) Tobias Boelt Back
Title Weaponising ‘apparently harmless portable objects’: emerging categorisations of trust and risk in post ‘pager attacks’ Lebanon
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Tag(s) EMCA, Weaponised consumer technology, Hybrid warfare, Ethnomethodology, Categorisation analysis, Trust in technology, Pager attacks
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Language English
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Volume 36
Number 6
Pages 1025-1048
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DOI 10.1080/09592318.2025.2507223
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The September 2024 ‘pager attacks’ in Lebanon and Syria marked a new modus operandi of remote warfare: The achievement of military objectives through covert mass weaponisation of seemingly harmless objects. Analysing brief interviews conducted in the hours and days after the attacks in the streets of Lebanon, I focalise the formation and enactment of new, socially sanctionable practices for engaging with suddenly potentially lethal consumer technology. My paper shows that the impact of the attacks extended well beyond the target devices and immediate casualties, causing a spillover effect of distrust from targeted devices to electronic devices more broadly.

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