• @TrousersMcPants
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    32 months ago

    They probably weren’t putting shaped charges into the pagers at the factory

    • @dance_ninja
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      22 months ago

      The explosive material was allegedly placed inside the pagers’ batteries and detonated by an external command that caused the batteries’ temperatures to overheat and trigger the explosion, the sources added.

      Yeah, you’re right. I read that article too quickly. Thought it said they just did something with malware to trigger the battery to explode.

      • @TrousersMcPants
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        22 months ago

        Even if they did do that, afaik batteries can’t fail like that, especially little ones in pagers. If anything they’d just burst into flames and people would get a few burns