The Exploding Pagers
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 14:28 last edited by
I don't see how you could get batteries to explode like that in a standard device by remote interference. They must be handing out devices that have been tampered with.
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I don't see how you could get batteries to explode like that in a standard device by remote interference. They must be handing out devices that have been tampered with.
wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 14:37 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in The Exploding Pagers:
I don't see how you could get batteries to explode like that in a standard device by remote interference. They must be handing out devices that have been tampered with.
Firmware update?
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 14:40 last edited by
No they had to add explosive to the devices. This was obviously a long planned event.
And beautiful. Bringing it to them personally in such a targeted way.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in The Exploding Pagers:
I don't see how you could get batteries to explode like that in a standard device by remote interference. They must be handing out devices that have been tampered with.
Firmware update?
wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 14:41 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in The Exploding Pagers:
@Doctor-Phibes said in The Exploding Pagers:
I don't see how you could get batteries to explode like that in a standard device by remote interference. They must be handing out devices that have been tampered with.
Firmware update?
I guess it's theoretically possible, if you could somehow reverse polarity to the battery terminals, but I suspect they've been tampered with in hardware rather than software. You'd also need to make sure only the pagers carried by targets were compromised, how on earth would you do that?
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 14:45 last edited by
Was it simultaneous?
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 14:50 last edited by
Seems to have been
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 14:51 last edited by
Apparently hesballah already banned cell phones for its operatives as they were all getting hacked. So they switched to pagers and couriers.
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Apparently hesballah already banned cell phones for its operatives as they were all getting hacked. So they switched to pagers and couriers.
wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 14:52 last edited by@jon-nyc said in The Exploding Pagers:
. So they switched to pagers and couriers.
More medieval tactics, LOL
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No they had to add explosive to the devices. This was obviously a long planned event.
And beautiful. Bringing it to them personally in such a targeted way.
wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 14:53 last edited by@jon-nyc said in The Exploding Pagers:
No they had to add explosive to the devices. This was obviously a long planned event.
And beautiful. Bringing it to them personally in such a targeted way.
You like terrorism? We'll show you how it's done.
This is such a masterful stroke psychologically. Now none of those bastards will want to be carrying that technology.
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 15:12 last edited by
Some reports are saying that over 1000 were injured.
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 15:17 last edited by jon-nyc
I hope there was a 2 second delay between the detonation message and the detonation itself. Long enough for the terrorist to involve his hand in the explosion, not long enough for him to save his balls.
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I hope there was a 2 second delay between the detonation message and the detonation itself. Long enough for the terrorist to involve his hand in the explosion, not long enough for him to save his balls.
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 15:22 last edited by
word here is people where all paged with some message, giving a few seconds to look at it, then....surprise...
unconfirmed report that the iranian ambassador to Lebanon also had a pager -
wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 15:27 last edited by
you gotta admit, its original. not strategically game changing, but letting them feel they are completely transparent to
IsraeliLuxembourg's intelligence (no official claim of responsibility here) -
wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 15:35 last edited by
It would seem that the time to do this would be <24 hours before a major escalation.
Any bets?
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 15:36 last edited by
its possible....strike while the irons hot
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 15:42 last edited by
ANd while they can't coordinate their defense/response.
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 16:02 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in The Exploding Pagers:
ANd while they can't coordinate their defense/response.
That’s a good point, I was thinking the reverse. Hezbollah planning a major offensive? Disrupt it by by blowing up their communications (and a few hands and crotches)…
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 16:10 last edited by
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wrote on 17 Sept 2024, 17:22 last edited by
They got the idea from Walter White.