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Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
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#163This hack is the best argument against network-connected electric vehicles that there is. Imagine the same, but with tens of thousands of Teslas.
It's almost certainly 15 grams of RDX.
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#164This hack is the best argument against network-connected electric vehicles that there is. Imagine the same, but with tens of thousands of Teslas.
I don't think it would be quite the same as in explosive ordinance put into a device but it is very similar in that a mass hack could use the navigation system to target pedestrians and calculate the speed required to plow through them without losing control to maximize victim count. All that would be required in another remote hack as has been demonstrated on live highways in the past [1] combined with some form of…
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Supply chain attack putting some RDX into a shipment of pagers
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#166This being a hack is improbable in my opinion. If you see the pictures of the aftermath, the damage is too big to be the result of a lithium battery explosion. Moreover the devices exploded at the same time in different locations (won’t happen if they made the battery overheat till explosion) HA probably bought a bad batch with implanted explosives and they set it off now.
I tend to agree with you. However it has been said (from wsj article) that "some people felt the pagers heat up and disposed of them".
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#167This seems like it would have the potential for a lot of collateral damage due to the possibility that modified pagers might enter general distribution. That is to say, how do they insure that a given shipment of pagers are only going to Hezbollah as opposed to some of them going to people like aid workers?
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#168This hack is the best argument against network-connected electric vehicles that there is. Imagine the same, but with tens of thousands of Teslas.
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#169I searched 'pager batteries' on Amazon and most are NiMH, not lithium.
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#170It must be a combination of hardware (put a bomb in it) and software (trigger an explosion when a particular command is received) hack. Triggering an explosion of all devices is needed because if people started hearing about exploding pagers, they'd place their own far away from anything precious to them. Geez, I thought this kind of hack is the stuff of (bad) action movies. I wonder if there's a pager that was power…
Hypothetically there could be scenarios where something as simple as control over the right NTP servers could trigger that code, right? I