September 17, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Bill said: So, uh, all of Hezbollah’s pagers exploded at the same time. Like all of them. At the same time. So either the Mossad infiltrated the supply chain on this particular model or their cyber warfare unit hacked the retail units and figured out a way to remotely induce thermal runaway of the battery? Wild stuff.
September 17, 20241 yr Ok, I've seen images of some of the injuries, that wasn't thermal runaway on retail pagers. That was a purpose built explosive device.
September 17, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, we_gotta_believe said: So either the Mossad infiltrated the supply chain on this particular model or their cyber warfare unit hacked the retail units and figured out a way to remotely induce thermal runaway of the battery? Wild stuff. Yeah, plus it Fs up the comms because anybody who’s pager didn’t give them a new a-hole just threw theirs away. And in the event of a ground invasion, any captive is gonna be all "no, I don’t work for that heinous group. Oh, that giant scar on my hip was totally from a motorbike crash.”
September 17, 20241 yr 53 minutes ago, paco said: Ok.... the nerd in me has to know..... how? When I think pager, I think this: So unless what they are using is substantially different, there is no way that you could overload the tiny battery on it to cause it to make an explosion that big, right? This is the pager I had in the 90s
September 17, 20241 yr 50 minutes ago, paco said: Looked it up and it appears it was done via one of two ways: Compromised devices\supply chain prior to getting into the hands of the terrorists. or Jewish space lasers. Yeah I've seen images of fingers blown off. The power on those blasts seem to indicate a plastic explosive of some kind packed into each pager.
September 17, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: This is the pager I had in the 90s I had a pager in the 90s. Not for phone calls but was hooked up to my cars alarm system. My friend and I sunk a lot of $$$ into our stereos and after his got stolen (subwoofer, not head unit) in the school parking lot, I wasn't taking any chances with mine
September 17, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, we_gotta_believe said: Yeah I've seen images of fingers blown off. The power on those blasts seem to indicate a plastic explosive of some kind packed into each pager. From why I’ve been reading they sent out a mass message and then did it.
September 17, 20241 yr 3 minutes ago, Bill said: From why I’ve been reading they sent out a mass message and then did it. Yeah, the detonation trigger sequence is trivial once you have physical access to each device. A small SoC that reads every number string, checks it against a whitelist and then passes it through innocuously if it's not a match. So 99.99% of the time, the pager looks and behaves like a pager. Until that one day it checks the number string, finds a match, then flips a relay (or however C4 detonators can be triggered) and boom.
September 17, 20241 yr 3 minutes ago, paco said: I had a pager in the 90s. Not for phone calls but was hooked up to my cars alarm system. My friend and I sunk a lot of $$$ into our stereos and after his got stolen (subwoofer, not head unit) in the school parking lot, I wasn't taking any chances with mine I didn't actually have a pager in the 90's. I was way late to any technology. Didn't have a computer until my 3rd year in college. Didn't have a cell phone until I was around 24 or 25.
September 17, 20241 yr 49 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: I didn't actually have a pager in the 90's. I was way late to any technology. Didn't have a computer until my 3rd year in college. Didn't have a cell phone until I was around 24 or 25.
September 17, 20241 yr Not that this is surprising, but Israel really dgaf about civilian casualties. Dudes exploding in busy grocery stores with kids standing like two feet away. Yikes.
September 17, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said: Ok, I've seen images of some of the injuries, that wasn't thermal runaway on retail pagers. That was a purpose built explosive device. One of the blast range technicians (former EOD) said the same thing.
September 17, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, VanHammersly said: I didn't actually have a pager in the 90's. I was way late to any technology. Didn't have a computer until my 3rd year in college. Didn't have a cell phone until I was around 24 or 25. Found the old guy everybody (Nobody pay attention to my Voltron die cast set)
September 17, 20241 yr 27 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said: They might have turned a profit on this operation.
September 17, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, Kz! said: Not that this is surprising, but Israel really dgaf about civilian casualties. Dudes exploding in busy grocery stores with kids standing like two feet away. Yikes. In terms of military operations, the collateral damage rate on something like this would be pretty low when compared to conventional methods. I think I already saw a report of one girl who died, but drone strikes, car bombs, or even civvies getting caught in open-street crossfire are all worse.
September 17, 20241 yr Just now, we_gotta_believe said: In terms of military operations, the collateral damage rate on something like this would be pretty low when compared to conventional methods. I think I already saw a report of one girl who died, but drone strikes, car bombs, or even civvies getting caught in open-street crossfire are all worse. Kz is very against civilian deaths, that's why he's voting for the guy that rewrote the rules for reporting civilian casualties from drone warfare.
September 17, 20241 yr 8 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Found the old guy everybody (Nobody pay attention to my Voltron die cast set) I was too busy banging. Back then computers were just for you and the other nerds.
September 17, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, VanHammersly said: I was too busy banging. Back then computers were just for you and the other nerds. I .... totally banged. Who's laughing now?
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