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Wait, they can explode pagers? I knew it was a good thing we stopped using those! /s
they can hack all sorts of things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
The hacking isn't exactly surprising- but what the hell is up with the explosions? Honestly that is the real head-scratcher for me.
They weren't hacked. A Li-ion battery doesn't explode like that. It might flash and burn and injure you but those explosions are... explosive in nature. I had read some comments elsewhere saying these pagers were manufactured by some shell company in Taiwan. Idk how true that is but in one way or another, these pagers very likely had actual explosives put in them. It's way easier to rig up a small explosive to go off at the ring of a certain number then to "hack" it to cause the battery to somehow explode in a way those batteries don't actually explode.
These pagers don't even use lithium, they run on normal AAA batteries. There was tampering along the supply chain.