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10-year-old Fatima Jaafar Abdullah was killed in pager explosions in Lebanon.

Israel murders another kid again.

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 17 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

It is a huge technical operation to intercept an order and replace it with modified devices without the target knowing. Particularly when the target has to be extra careful in ordering things in the first place to avoid sanctions.

In contrast sending out an "execute order 66" message is pretty trivial to trigger them

[–] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

How would this message trigger the explosive?

Taking control of a shipping container, opening all of pagers and adding some explosives is obvious and not too hard for people with that power.

Replacing all the chips, or hacking their firmware, is different, and is what I'm asking about.

Most bombs that use a phone as the trigger use the speaker for example. But in these pagers that would have already set off loads.

[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

May have been done at the source of the manufacturing.

[–] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 18 hours ago

Not sure that falls under "intercepted"

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