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agoodwinsmith ([personal profile] agoodwinsmith) wrote 2024-09-25 02:12 pm (UTC)

Yes. I did just view an analysis of how the pagers were compromised, and it was explosives plus little metal balls to behave as more shrapnel:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/how-did-hezbollah-get-the-pagers-that-exploded-in-lebanon

Considering a report I just watched on Canadian TV news, one can cause pandemonium by just replacing a battery with one not meant for the device.

Yesbut/nobut: my phone was new 2016, and I have been very luddite how I use it and what I load on it, and still the various stakeholders keep forcing various updates. Apparently a code was sent to the pagers prior to explosion. I don't have explosives or little metal spheres, but there is other shattery stuff that would scare me pretty thoroughly. I can see sending a code generally into the population generating a lot of fear. One oopsie, y'know?


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