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Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers (www.aljazeera.com)
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[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how they did it. Was the firmware hacked to make the batteries ignite or were separate explosives implanted in each pager?

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

Almost certainly it was explosives. Mossad very likely designed a functioning pager that contains explosives but looks identical to the original pagers and this is effectively a supply chain attack.