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.
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