Submitted 1 year ago by andrew_s@piefed.social to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
This isn’t some technological triumph. This is terrifying. This is the military-industrial complex testing its capabilities. I know these batteries were specifically made for this, but what’s to stop a malicious actor or government pushing malware to civilian phones to explode a battery?
I’m just impressed that no one detected any anomalies (oh, say, like a lump of c4 painted to look like a capacitor) during a service, considering how many of the devices were out in the wild.
The explosive was inside the battery.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
The Trojan horse was famously a gift.
Hezbollah paid good money for those devices.
cabbage@piefed.social 1 year ago
Honestly, the gift part always made the people of Troy look a bit naïve. It would perhaps have made more sense if they paid good money for the latest and greatest gigantic wooden horse made by the finest Greek artisans.