so how does one verify that the battery in their iphone doesn't contain explosives?
Don't be a part of a terrorist organization and if you are - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device
Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
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#122I'll be curious about what details emerge concerning connections between the hand-held radios and the pagers. Any overlap in the manufacturers? Were the radios new/recently replaced like the pagers? How was the explosive triggered?
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#123so how does one verify that the battery in their iphone doesn't contain explosives?
As long as it doesn’t say “made in Hungary” And on a more serious note. Hizbolla is a blacklisted terrorist org, they can’t just order stuff from regular factories. Buying from an anonymous white label factory in Hungary with no address and little information is probably pretty normal from them - because anyone doing business with them in the EU will go to jail As long as you’re not buying electronics from shady fact…
> As long as you’re not buying electronics from shady factories with no known owners you’ll be fine
For now and to our knowledge so far.
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#124In the other thread, HN said Israel can only pull this trick only once and they just did it the second time
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Because communication still needs to happen?
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*attack on terrorists
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#127I guess they are taking a victory lap around yesterday's major embarrassment. I never thought that you could dismantle a terrorist organization so surgically by just booby-trapping comms devices. This will certainly be made into a blockbuster movie in ten years. I'll re-iterate my previous comment on this matter: this is an impressive supply-chain hack with absolutely oversized results, and you gotta hand it to them…
It's not a victory lap; this operation by itself is one of the largest and most intricate operations Israeli intelligence has ever executed, and would have been planned months in advance. Repeating from elsewhere on the thread: the reporting is that this is happening now because Hezbollah was on the verge of discovering the operation. I think it's likely both sets of devices came from the same manufacturer or distributor.
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#128so how does one verify that the battery in their iphone doesn't contain explosives?
As long as it doesn’t say “made in Hungary” And on a more serious note. Hizbolla is a blacklisted terrorist org, they can’t just order stuff from regular factories. Buying from an anonymous white label factory in Hungary with no address and little information is probably pretty normal from them - because anyone doing business with them in the EU will go to jail As long as you’re not buying electronics from shady fact…
Exactly. The EU designates Hezbolla as a terrorist group. It is illegal for EU to sell to them.
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#129I'd be eyeballing for anything that could still function with a couple cm^3 carved out & filled with HE. Next come the potatoes.