I was listening to Matt Bracken on Rumble, and Matt brought up point I had not considered.
Israel just demonstrated a capability that should make all of us pay attention: the state use of wireless devices to execute a mass time on target attack.
What if, in the future, someone does this to cell phones of MAGA voters? Or, to get at Elon Musk, they do this to Tesla cars?
How would they manage to get explosives inside the phones if we already have them? Especially if you've had your phone for a while. Keep in mind, the longer the explosives lay planted in the phone, the more chances they get discovered. It only takes one person to crack their screen and take it to one of those strip mall cell phone repair places, and then the jig is up. Remember, they used things like pagers and radios because those are fairly antiquated devices with older technology in them, which means it's a lot easier to make a little free space inside it. A modern smartphone has next to zero free space. I suppose someone could take the battery out, put a battery half the size inside and use the rest of that space for explosives, but again, they would have to take the phone from you, take it apart, plant the explosives, give it back, and then wait an indeterminate amount of time before activation.
There is a reason they did this with an entire shipment of pagers. They intercepted the shipment, did it to all of the pagers, put them back in the factory packaging, and then waited until they were distributed, probably not longer than a month or two. Doing it piecemeal with a bunch of disparate and used devices nationwide is practically impossible. And again, it only takes one person to have some reason to have their phone opened up, and then the explosives get found and the whole thing becomes public.
They didn't intercept a shipment. They were the manufacturers from the start. Nobody can resist Mossad's great bargains (through shell companies). https://archive.ph/Kv6cP
This was my question as well. If we already have the devices, how can they put explosives into them without having them in their possession?
This would have to mean that they can remotely make the battery pack overheat and explode somehow, or that the explosives were already installed way ahead of time, and they've been carrying them around for days? months? ... years?
Who says they can't just overload your battery and make it explode Samsung style?
Not destructive enough.
These devices were rigged with small amounts of explosives. Lithium will burn like crazy but it doesn't react fast enough to cause overpressure. A lithium battery failing in your hand might fail fast enough to burn your hand, but it won't happen fast enough to blow your fingers off. It's not about the energy, it's about the chemistry. You need the right KIND of reaction. RDX and HMX get most of their energy from the extremely weak N-N bond, which REAAAALLLLY wants to become N≡N. Lithium batteries will get hot, they'll burn, they'll burst and vent hot gas... but they won't detonate.
I've seen a cordless lithium ion tool battery burst into flames at work about 8 years ago. Kind of a mini explosion. Only once, but it got me thinking years ago and I don't store my batteries in the house now. I have a feeling all lithium ion batteries are potentially mini explosives.
That'd swell and get hot and burn but not explode.
Also, modern lithium batteries have devices built into them to stop that. That's the problem - you could use software to try to tell a device to overcharge the battery, but the stuff that's built into the battery is pretty much inaccessible to the device and it'd go "hmm this isn't right" and turn off. Ever leave your phone sitting in the car and came back in and it was turned off because it was too hot? That's the battery reporting that to the phone, not the phone itself.
in theory you could find an exploit that overrode the circuit, assuming the battery circuit isn't read-only, but it would be so piecemeal that it wouldn't be worth the hassle.
they'd be better off going after us the old-fashion way at that point... "car accidents" and the like...
This is one of the reasons I don't consider the idea of it being intercepted and planted with high explosives to be reasonable. There's way to many things that can go wrong.
What? Shit moves around in cargo containers. And it's not guarded 24/7. Pretty ez for a SO team