The pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months, three security sources said.
I wonder if Israel has a unit similar to the NSA’s TAO (tailored access operations) where they inserted people into the manufacturing plant to tamper with devices before they even left the factory.
This is more simple than that. They're sending a malicious payload to the target numbers which causes the pager to heat up the battery and explode. Nothing manufacturing related.
I would love to see a detailed technical explanation for how this would be possible.
I design battery-powered electronics for a living and I can't think of any design that would let a battery explode with the violence these did, let alone on command. Unless it were deliberate.
~~This is nuts, from a vid I saw it was an actual explosion. The fact that so many "terrorists" were given devices with explosives in them and it was undetected until they blew..
I don't care if it's for the greater good, any entity that has the ability to pull this off should be dismantled and charged with crimes against humanity. This can't be a thing humanity just accepts as a possibility. Yeah terrorism is bad but this is fucked if true.~~
Edit: if this video isn't completely made up it looks like those batteries can explode. I was under the impression they would shoot flames well before any explosion, might not be the case. Quite curious on the exploit though. What conductor do they have in there that wouldn't burn out like a fuse before the explosion.
One of the deaths I read was due to ammunition in their pocket and another due to them crashing their car after it exploded. Seems 8 dead, almost 3,000 injured from Lebanon to Syria and one in Qatar.