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Re: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

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Post by algo_trader » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:25 PM UTC

> The affected pagers were from a new shipment .. in recent days

> some people felt the pagers heat up and disposed of them

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hundreds-of-hezbollah-...

Re: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

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Post by myponybaloney » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:25 PM UTC

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Re: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

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Post by lbeltrame » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:25 PM UTC

Question for those with more knowledge on these devices: how can they detonate? The batteries?

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Post by bbqfog » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:28 PM UTC

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Post by h2odragon » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:28 PM UTC

https://archive.ph/l6dpE

one video: https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1836039436653519209

Re: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

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Post by o999 » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:28 PM UTC

Primary news suggests its an Israeli cyberattack

Re: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

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Post by gomezjdaniel » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:30 PM UTC

lbeltrame wrote: post #23

Question for those with more knowledge on these devices: how can they detonate? The batteries?

It could be they had a way to warm up the batteries until these explode

Re: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

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Post by mapt » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:31 PM UTC

lbeltrame wrote: post #23

Question for those with more knowledge on these devices: how can they detonate? The batteries?

The batteries are the only major energy storage device there to breach.

Clearly Israel has found a software vulnerability that lets them overload some otherwise minimally used processor and overheat the batteries. Above ~140f lithium ion cells go into thermal runaway.

Re: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

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Post by bbqfog » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:31 PM UTC

minkles wrote: post #8

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Re: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

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Post by danbruc » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:31 PM UTC

lbeltrame wrote: post #23

Question for those with more knowledge on these devices: how can they detonate? The batteries?

This article [1] has an image of the pager and a video supposedly showing one exploding in the bag of some guy while shopping groceries. From that I would suspect a supply chain attack integrating some explosive, that seems way too violent for just an exploding battery or anything else you would usually find in that kind of device.

[1] https://realrepublic.com/encrypted-hezbollah-pagers-simultan...

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