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

Kinda terrifying actually.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That seems pretty credible to me.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Quite the supply chain attack.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If what's described in the story is accurate, this is incredibly impressive work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Username checks out

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine if one of those pagers had been on a plane...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

An ounce of high explosive won't take down a plane. Even at cruising altitude.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It may not take it down but it would likely not end well. Also an ounce of certain explosives is a lot more destructive than others.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

If the pilots each had one and they were sitting on the flight console when boom boom

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, did you see the picture of what happened to the pager that was on the table? I could see that going through a few mm of aluminium.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why would someone be holding their pager against the wall of a plane?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're sitting in a window seat your pocket is pretty much against the hull.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's a horrifying thought. You are a gonner at that point

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sources is allways trustworthy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't think too much about that used laptop you got for cheap and haven't opened up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Fucking nuts.

Mass detonation at the exact same time is spooky deus ex shit.

Can hear Adam Jenson narrating this news crawl

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Drop it in a bucket of water. Source: I've seen many films

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pagers aren't particularly big or heavy, I think it would be hard to hide that much explosive in one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

30-60g is a very very noticeable amount

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You can buy cellphones that weigh less than 80g, someone would notice.