Israel behind deadly pager explosions that targeted Hezbollah and injured thousands in Lebanon | CNN
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Hezbollah has vowed to respond to an Israeli attack that killed multiple people and injured thousands across Lebanon on Tuesday when pagers belonging to members of the Iran-backed militant group exploded almost simultaneously, exposing a massive security breach and demonstrating the scale of Israeli intelligence.
  • ravhall@discuss.onlineEnglish
    121·
    2 months ago

    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.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      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

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

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

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    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.