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Exploding pagers belonging to Hezbollah kill 8 and injure more than 2,700 in Lebanon
(www.nbcnews.com)
Holy shit the 90s actually called
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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NPR was saying these devices are used by people in government too and that government vehicles were seen arriving at the hospital, and that children had been killed. They didn't just target Hezbollah.
How Doctorow-esque
This is some Watch_Dogs shit
This takes “blowing up my pager” to new levels
Yeah, that was a thing in the before times. Shut up.
Oh wow if this was a remote hardware hack that would be pretty unique. How many other hardware hacks have injured or killed people?
Unlikely, it would be a factory-level thing I imagine, trying to make explosions that big from just hacking hardware (specifically small pagers) would be nigh-on impossible (if not impossible).
Yeah I feel like this was done on the supply-chain. Somewhere along the way they were able to put in whatever explosives that was used during manufacturing or somewhere during transit/shipment.
This was a clever supply chain attack. I say clever because I don't think anything like this and at this scale has happened before, but due to it being lethal it's crazy scary. I'm not condoning it or praising it. As a cybersecurity professional we usually see people infiltrate the supply chain of code to inject their own, not actually putting explosives into communication devices and then using the network to remotely detonate.
As an infosec/cybersecurity professional, I am fascinated by this. As a human being living in this cyberpunk dystopia, I am disgusted.
This was an incredible operation, especially to not have it noticed, I mean, fuck you mossad, you are supporting genocide while “only following orders.” But a good op.
Might have just overloaded the battery somehow too.
If there is a technique for doing that with a standard lithium-ion battery, we can say goodbye to bringing personal electronic devices on flights from now on. Though given that it’d be only a matter of time until ransomware gangs and online swatters get this, would we want to have anything with a battery in a pocket?
After seeing some of the photos, I don't think it was just a battery explosion. I believe someone (im sure we could guess who) tampered with a massive shipment.
I don’t think a pager battery alone would be likely to cause a deadly explosion.
pagers
Exploding
Kill 8 and injure more than 2,700
Damn, I've seen vape batteries going up, but i never thought of a (most likely) smaller pager battery doing that much damage. Wonder what the chemistry of those batteries was...
Wonder what the chemistry of those batteries was...
(CH~2~N~2~O~2~)~3~ would be my guess...
I would've guessed C4
Yes.
seems.. plastic..