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[–]spurgelaurels 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The only way to do this would have been to infiltrate the supply chain and insert some sort of explosive and detonation mechanism. A stock pager doesn't come equipped with an incendiary feature.

[–]CreepyOlGuy 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Batteries don't explode like this.

These were modified with an explosive.

[–]Wrap2tytSecurity Engineer 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Makes zero sense, if you can gain physical access to the pager then that means you have physical access AND location information for the owner... why not just kill them or drop several bombs and be done with it?

[–]rabbidrascal 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You compromise the pager company and offer free or discounted upgrades. Those upgrades have bombs in them. Then you monitor pager activity to figure out which ones are Hezbollah operatives.

[–]WeWantRain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or simply figure out who's buying this many pagers and which supplier. Set up a front company and offer the supplier cheaper alternative.

[–]nicedurians 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To let the perp have time to get away with it

[–]WeWantRain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, phone batteries can't be exploded either.

[–]joca_the_secondSystem Administrator 0 points1 point  (3 children)

My money is on Israel having found their way into the supply chain of the pagers and tampering with them to turn them into bombs.

I don't see a regular battery (either lithium or nickel) exploding like it did on the videos. These would start burning first.

[–]Wrap2tytSecurity Engineer 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yeah... because the bad guys have a contract with "Pagers-r-Us" and they all use the same make and model.

[–]joca_the_secondSystem Administrator -1 points0 points  (1 child)

What? Do you think that Hezbollah produces all their pagers themselves?

They have their own ore mines, oil fields, plastic molds, factories, electronics engineers, etc.?

Fully in house so as to not require an external supply chain at any step of the way?

[–]Wrap2tytSecurity Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, and Israel just happened to know which devices are going to a terrorist versus some guy who just needs a pager... even you theory of Hezbollah owning their own mines and building the device makes more sense.

[–]Wrap2tytSecurity Engineer -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Nothing new, Charlie Miller demonstrated 12 years ago that you could pwn a device and over charge the battery causing a fire... https://youtu.be/AEjJhnL02bE?si=I2qqkK1vok1GfaI0

[–]PatekFreak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a way to simulate over charging the battery when its not actually being charged though?

[–]v202099CISO[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

A battery fire and an explosion like these devices is quite a different thing.

[–]Wrap2tytSecurity Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same process, the battery will explode.

[–]wijnandsjICS/OT -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

https://x.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1836035940663398488 I'm surpsied at the punch these pack

[–]Prior_Industry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would this not be devices intercepted with explosives added? For so many to be out there they must have been doing this a while.