How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers

Comments

• vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Trojan horse was famously a gift.

  Hezbollah paid good money for those devices.

  source

  • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

    source
• Thrillhouse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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?

  source
• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

  source

  • chillhelm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The explosive was inside the battery.

    source