How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers
How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers
The Trojan horse was famously a gift.
Hezbollah paid good money for those devices.
Honestly, the gift part always made the people of Troy look a bit naïve. It would perhaps have made more sense if they paid good money for the latest and greatest gigantic wooden horse made by the finest Greek artisans.
There's a stereotype of Jewish people as quite miserly , I don't know if it's justified, but making you pay for the explosive that maims you is very on-brand for.
This isn’t some technological triumph. This is terrifying. This is the military-industrial complex testing its capabilities. I know these batteries were specifically made for this, but what’s to stop a malicious actor or government pushing malware to civilian phones to explode a battery?
I'm just impressed that no one detected any anomalies (oh, say, like a lump of c4 painted to look like a capacitor) during a service, considering how many of the devices were out in the wild.
The explosive was inside the battery.