10mo ago

Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah's Taiwan-made pagers, sources say

www.rnz.co.nz

Three grams of explosive on a custom board, that they can detonate at will.

Kinda terrifying actually.

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I feel like this should unironically be a war crime. The potential for collateral is ridiculously high.
Edit: I'm amazed at how successfully this is being spun as a highly-targeted, high-precision attack with no collateral when it's pretty much the opposite. You can't control what they do with the pagers after they get them. Ffs there were kids killed.
- Imagine if one of those pagers had been on a plane...
  
  An ounce of high explosive won't take down a plane. Even at cruising altitude.
- I saw a post earlier on my mastodon mentioning this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Mines,_Booby-Traps_and_Other_Devices I do see "portable objects" mentioned, but given that the section is otherwise about stuff associated with children, I'm not sure if pagers would qualify or not.
This is a wild new form of terrorist attack.
I can't think of any other time consumer goods were sabotaged in a mass fatality attack like this.
Now I'm just a tiny bit afraid my phone is about to explode in my face.
- Is it a Galaxy Note 7?
  
  Galaxy C4.
Fucking nuts.
Mass detonation at the exact same time is spooky deus ex shit.
Can hear Adam Jenson narrating this news crawl
Quite the supply chain attack.
- If what's described in the story is accurate, this is incredibly impressive work.
  
  Username checks out
  
  It's not. Taiwanese say that pagers weren't made by them but instead these were made by their Hungarian subsidiary, but that company only has nameplate at residential address. It seems that shipment was for 5000 pagers and extra faje component was added
i've seen other source stating that it was something between 30 and 60g
give it a few days, nobody knows what is going on and only thing you can get are rumors. some people still think it was lithium battery
- I read an article saying one type of the pagers that blew up was an Apollo AP-900, which uses triple A alkaline batteries, so there's no way a battery overload could have caused that.
- Pagers aren't particularly big or heavy, I think it would be hard to hide that much explosive in one.
  
  30-60g is a very very noticeable amount
Don't think too much about that used laptop you got for cheap and haven't opened up.
- There was a journalist who had an attack on there life via a explosive USB drive. Luckily they plugged it into a hub first which only caused part of it to go off not the entire thing
That seems pretty credible to me.

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