quite aside from the question of how you hack thousands of pagers to make them explode, what are we carrying around in our daily lives that are one internet command away from blowing up?
Not much. The hard part is developing the trigger mechanism. After that, you just need a guy doing assembly to add the extra part. Or you stop the truck when it leaves the factory and delay it a day while you install the parts.
A video I looked at of a 18650 lithium battery cell exploding – if it was the battery, and not sabotaged pagers being injected into Hezbollah’s supplies before they were distributed – was not a very large explosion.
If it’s the battery, I think it’d have to be really close to you, probably on you, to likely hurt you. Like, not just a random device nearby.
Those 20+ million better trust the hardware and software engineers on that to have their security stuff together, because one of those going off probably isn’t gonna be much fun.
quite aside from the question of how you hack thousands of pagers to make them explode, what are we carrying around in our daily lives that are one internet command away from blowing up?
You don’t if you’ve seen the videos this are clearly high explosives. These devices were interdicted by Mossad long ago and triggered remotely.
imagine the resources needed to pull something like this
Your tax dollars at work
Not much. The hard part is developing the trigger mechanism. After that, you just need a guy doing assembly to add the extra part. Or you stop the truck when it leaves the factory and delay it a day while you install the parts.
A video I looked at of a 18650 lithium battery cell exploding – if it was the battery, and not sabotaged pagers being injected into Hezbollah’s supplies before they were distributed – was not a very large explosion.
If it’s the battery, I think it’d have to be really close to you, probably on you, to likely hurt you. Like, not just a random device nearby.
That being said…
I reckon that Bluetooth-enabled lithium battery buttplugs, vibrators, and onaholes maybe just got more potentially exciting.
Those 20+ million better trust the hardware and software engineers on that to have their security stuff together, because one of those going off probably isn’t gonna be much fun.