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Question for those with more knowledge on these devices: how can they detonate? The batteries?
by lbeltrame 2y ago
Question for those with more knowledge on these devices: how can they detonate? The batteries?
- h2odragon 2y agothey had to have had some extra components added: batteries won't pop like that, they haven't that much energy.
- gomezjdaniel 2y agoIt could be they had a way to warm up the batteries until these explode
- mapt 2y agoThe batteries are the only major energy storage device there to breach. Clearly Israel has found a software vulnerability that lets them overload some otherwise minimally used processor and overheat the batteries. Above ~140f lithium ion cells go into thermal runaway.
- daedrdev 2y agoIt seems like they actually installed small bombs in the devices.
- tiagod 2y agoHow is it so clear to you?
- mapt 2y agoI was discounting the possibility that Mossad was in control of global supplychains with sufficient intensity and recklessness to hide semtex and a detonator in an entire brand of consumer electronics, in its urgency to provide retroactive justification for every antisemitic conspiracy theory out there and ignite war with the entire Middle East. The only thing in a pager that SHOULD BE THERE with enough energy to 'explode' on demand, is a lithium ion battery. Which is evidently, given further reports, not what happened here.
- danbruc 2y agoThis article [1] has an image of the pager and a video supposedly showing one exploding in the bag of some guy while shopping groceries. From that I would suspect a supply chain attack integrating some explosive, that seems way too violent for just an exploding battery or anything else you would usually find in that kind of device. [1] https://realrepublic.com/encrypted-hezbollah-pagers-simultaneously-explode-across-lebanon-casualties-in-the-hundreds/ https://realrepublic.com/encrypted-hezbollah-pagers-simultan...