Exploding pagers

[drgrant]

I’d be curious to find out if the Israelis uploaded new firmware to the pagers or they cracked the original ones to cause the excessive discharge

Supply chain hack. That aint a battery fire.

 

[Dr_Scholl]

This reminds me of that scene from Law Abiding Citizen with the cell phone and the judge.

 

[walter62]

I guess they found out that going with the low-cost vendor, which was apparently a mossad front company is not the Win

 

[RumRunner]

Now they have to question every electronic devise. Pagers, phones, laptops, TV's maybe headphones?

Exploding ear buds,, now that would be something

 

[walter62]

SCANNERS!!!!!!!

 

[Garys]

From one story I read, the company that convinced the Hezbollah nitwits to buy the pagers was actually a Mossad front operation. Another story was that the pagers had malware that caused the batteries to explode, there wasn't any explosive in them.

The reason they moved away from phones was that the Mossad was routinely intercepting calls and texts.

I’d be curious to find out if the Israelis uploaded new firmware to the pagers or they cracked the original ones to cause the excessive discharge

 

[Garys]

Am I the only one that remembers when the Mossad swapped out a terrorists phone for one with a small explosive charge in it? They called the guy and when he answered, they remotely detonated the bomb.

He needed that like a hole in the head.

 

[Drix]

Supply chain hack. That aint a battery fire.

Has to be.

My pager ran on a single AA battery. That's a lot of bang from 1 AA.

 

[Snora]

It's still early but I'm going with shorting the lithium battery over installing tiny amounts of explosives in thousands of devices.

 

[Buck F]

You don't mess with the Zohan

 

[Tinkermatic]

It's still early but I'm going with shorting the lithium battery over installing tiny amounts of explosives in thousands of devices.

Currently 2750 injured and 9 dead? That was an explosive charge that tore through the dudes bag not a shorted battery. He dropped instantly and started wailing.

 

[Dennis in MA]

I didn't realize people are still using pagers in 2024

This is mASSachusetts. They're not pagers. Theeah BEEPAHZ! LOL

 

[pewpewpew]

View: https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1836113607572230358?t=hZ8dKZlFlZVZCwRfb4wYGQ&s=19

It's Arab news though, so at least 50% chance this is made up bullshit for the Arab world. They love this kind of thing.

iTz dA MoSsAd!!1!

 

[Yazz]

 

[rep308]

View: https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1836113607572230358?t=hZ8dKZlFlZVZCwRfb4wYGQ&s=19

It's Arab news though, so at least 50% chance this is made up bullshit for the Arab world. They love this kind of thing.

iTz dA MoSsAd!!1!

Better living through chemistry.

 

[rep308]

Mossads next idea


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ciVBQixpU

 

[Fixxah]

Better living through chemistry.

Settled science.

 

[Garys]

I have to agree with you. Logistically, it's much easier to short out batteries with a history of exploding without warning than stuffing explosives into the cases. Either way, it's good work. Oh, and it's not likely we'll ever know the truth anyway.

It's still early but I'm going with shorting the lithium battery over installing tiny amounts of explosives in thousands of devices.

 

[drgrant]

It's still early but I'm going with shorting the lithium battery over installing tiny amounts of explosives in thousands of devices.

I'm not..... have you actually seen the pictures?

Those are not lithium battery fires. One I was scrolling through basically it it had blown a hole through the top of a table. That's some kind of a purpose designed explosive charge not a battery going up.

 

[dukeofsoul]

Let's effing gooo!! Good stuff, IDF!

 

[Garys]

Lithium batteries can explode quite violently, it doesn't always have to be a fire per se.

I'm not..... have you actually seen the pictures?

Those are not lithium battery fires. One I was scrolling through basically it it had blown a hole through the top of a table. That's some kind of a purpose designed explosive charge not a battery going up.

 

[drgrant]

Lithium batteries can explode quite violently, it doesn't always have to be a fire per se.

Not like that they can't. These are explosives. I've never seen a lithium battery blow up that didn't involve a fire and gobs of smoke.

 

[G4Y4HK]

Not like that they can't. These are explosives. I've never seen a lithium battery blow up that didn't involve a fire and gobs of smoke.

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[Dadstoys]

 

[Picton]

I wonder if there was a page, a delay for the recipient to pick up the page, or an immediate remote detonation. That would determine which direction a shaped charge would be directed.

I doubt there was much of a delay. I'd imagine all the devices went off near-simultaneously; it would not have taken long for everyone with one of those pagers to ditch his the moment they started exploding out of their buddies' pockets.

I don't imagine Mossad cared about killing all that many people. The sheer effectiveness of the charges themselves wasn't the point. This was like that elevator scene in Untouchables, where the main point was the "touchable" graffiti.

Now they have to question every electronic devise. Pagers, phones, laptops, TV's maybe headphones?

That's the real beauty of this: the reminder that nothing is really all that safe.

Mossad is very good at that kind of warfare.

 

[MaverickNH]

So what do you suppose will be next? Baofengs?

A UV-5R can take down the whole comms infrastructure at the touch of the PTT with harmonics over the -40dB/25mW threshold - or so the Fudd-Hams tell me.

 

[Kevin_NH]

Given the blast damage shown in some of the images and WSJ reporting "members felt their pagers heat up and disposed of them before they detonated", the suggestion that the batteries were infused with PETN with to make the failure mode more "energetic" seems credible.

One guy got killed by an olight flashlight grenade. These lithium ion little blocks people clip on next to important organs go kaboom

Caleb Joyner, choked to death in 2017

 

[Admin]

It's still early but I'm going with shorting the lithium battery over installing tiny amounts of explosives in thousands of devices.

Watch the few videos out there. No flame or smoke. EXPLOSIONS. It's not a battery short.

 

[pewpewpew]

I wonder if there was a page, a delay for the recipient to pick up the page, or an immediate remote detonation. That would determine which direction a shaped charge would be directed.

Everything is hearsay at the moment, but I read that allegedly this was the case: the beeper went "beep beep" there was a delay of a few seconds for the terrorist to get a chance to bring it up to their chest or face and look at it, then KABOOM. Also, allegedly, several hundred of the targets have either been blinded or been dealt serious eye injuries.

 

[G4Y4HK]

A UV-5R can take down the whole comms infrastructure at the touch of the PTT with harmonics over the -40dB/25mW threshold - or so the Fudd-Hams tell me.

Fudd hams also tell me they know exactly where I would be broadcasting from with my little baofeng if I don't have a LOOOISENSE