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Hundreds of Hezbollah fighters wounded when their pagers all explode (nypost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Not really. These were almost certainly tiny shaped RDX charges. Pretty sure that stuff isn't in your everyday cellphone/smartphone. Israel must've identified and infiltrated the supply chain used by Hezbollah.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

~~There are critical facilities that still make high use of pagers in the US.~~

Edit: They added explosives to the pagers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They probably weren't putting shaped charges into the pagers at the factory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The explosive material was allegedly placed inside the pagers’ batteries and detonated by an external command that caused the batteries’ temperatures to overheat and trigger the explosion, the sources added.

Yeah, you're right. I read that article too quickly. Thought it said they just did something with malware to trigger the battery to explode.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Even if they did do that, afaik batteries can't fail like that, especially little ones in pagers. If anything they'd just burst into flames and people would get a few burns