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This takes “blowing up my pager” to new levels
Yeah, that was a thing in the before times. Shut up.
This is some Watch_Dogs shit
pagers
Exploding
Kill 8 and injure more than 2,700
Damn, I've seen vape batteries going up, but i never thought of a (most likely) smaller pager battery doing that much damage. Wonder what the chemistry of those batteries was...
Wonder what the chemistry of those batteries was...
(CH~2~N~2~O~2~)~3~ would be my guess...
seems.. plastic..
I would've guessed C4
Yes.
NPR was saying these devices are used by people in government too and that government vehicles were seen arriving at the hospital, and that children had been killed. They didn't just target Hezbollah.
How Doctorow-esque
Oh wow if this was a remote hardware hack that would be pretty unique. How many other hardware hacks have injured or killed people?
This was a clever supply chain attack. I say clever because I don't think anything like this and at this scale has happened before, but due to it being lethal it's crazy scary. I'm not condoning it or praising it. As a cybersecurity professional we usually see people infiltrate the supply chain of code to inject their own, not actually putting explosives into communication devices and then using the network to remotely detonate.
As an infosec/cybersecurity professional, I am fascinated by this. As a human being living in this cyberpunk dystopia, I am disgusted.
This was an incredible operation, especially to not have it noticed, I mean, fuck you mossad, you are supporting genocide while “only following orders.” But a good op.
Might have just overloaded the battery somehow too.
I don’t think a pager battery alone would be likely to cause a deadly explosion.
If there is a technique for doing that with a standard lithium-ion battery, we can say goodbye to bringing personal electronic devices on flights from now on. Though given that it’d be only a matter of time until ransomware gangs and online swatters get this, would we want to have anything with a battery in a pocket?
Unlikely, it would be a factory-level thing I imagine, trying to make explosions that big from just hacking hardware (specifically small pagers) would be nigh-on impossible (if not impossible).
Holy shit the 90s actually called