How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

This isn’t some technological triumph. This is terrifying. This is the military-industrial complex testing its capabilities. I know these batteries were specifically made for this, but what’s to stop a malicious actor or government pushing malware to civilian phones to explode a battery?

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