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?
Who says they can't just overload your battery and make it explode Samsung style?
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...