Live Updates: Pagers Explode Across Lebanon in Apparent Attack on Hezbollah (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

This is wild. Does the IDF have the capability of making a person’s cell phone explode? Are they able to hack the power management or something? Is almost everyone on earth carrying a bomb? WTF.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My guess is that they figured out that Hezbollah was ordering new encrypted pagers for their members, and modified the devices to include explosives and a mechanism to remotely detonate them.

[-] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

yep, looks like you were right. sorta reassuring…

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