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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 29 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Sooner or later, we will find out how they did this. There has to have been an explosive planted in the device, no way did the battery alone do this.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some research earlier today suggested that some specific model may even have alkaline batteries, which are less thermal runaway-ey than lithium ions.

I'm just seriously impressed that someone could get enough explosive into the package and still have a functional pager that didn't set off alarms.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

My dad had an on call pager back in the day that ran on AA batteries.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/528326/israel-planted-explosives-in-hezbollah-s-taiwan-made-pagers-sources-say

This has some more details about how it was supposedly done.

On the newest episode of the podcast Call Me Back with Dan Senor you can hear Nadav Eyal say that the shipment was intercepted and explosives were installed.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

If you watch the videos it's definitely an explosive

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The fact they all went off around the same time makes me think explosives too. If it was just a fucked up battery, I think they would have more random with when they all exploded.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it be easier to divert a shipping container on a truck out of the factory, make the changes, seal everything back up and have it delivered? The hardest part would be making sure that the driver is your guy?

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The more clandestine version of selling burner phones pre bugged like the wire. Reality is surprising all the time