Exploding pagers injure hundreds in attack targeting Hezbollah members, Lebanese security source says (www.cnn.com)
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ravhall@discuss.online on 17 Sep 2024 15:24 next collapse

Super curious how this plays out. Pager batteries and phone batteries theoretically could overheat and explode, but that explosion is rarely enough to cause damage. I’m wondering if all the explosions were targets, and maybe a shipment of these devices was tampered with.

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 15:33 next collapse

Me too. My initial guess is it’s something along the lines of a Stuxnet infection of the targeted pagers, which had the operating systems do something that caused the batteries to overheat and explode.

But the fact that they all exploded at the same time is very interesting. You’d think that do ing that by overheating the batteries would see them explode at slightly different times due to local environmental variables.

ETA: As others have pointed out, this must be more than just a lithium ion battery overheating/exploding. I read somewhere that Hezbollah inserts a self-destruct explosive into their pagers in case of emergency. And it sounds like the Israeli intelligence forces probably hacked into their network and triggered the detonations. So it’s probably a combination of Hezbollah’s paranoia combined with old school hacking from Israel.

ravhall@discuss.online on 17 Sep 2024 16:58 next collapse

Right, and pager batteries are small. This is something out of a spy movie haha.

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 17:16 collapse

Great point about the battery size.

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xmunk@sh.itjust.works on 17 Sep 2024 19:02 next collapse

It’s so fucking coincidental that it seems hard to believe this wasn’t an act of deliberate sabatoge.

sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works on 17 Sep 2024 22:12 collapse

lithium battery “explosion” is very minor. You can watch in youtube people delibretly exploding batteries. The reason its dangrous is because its able to start fire or cause burns if it was in your pocket.

Israel has planted real explosives somehow

ravhall@discuss.online on 17 Sep 2024 22:58 collapse

That’s some impressive coordination.

yesman@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 21:48 collapse

Israel has used explosives in communication devices for assassinations before. In '96 a West Bank bomb-maker was killed by 15g of explosives planted in his cellphone.