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Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 2 months ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They've done a similar thing at a smaller scale with individual phones in the past. What is different is this time it's not targeted at a specific person and instead involves thousands of devices going off simultaneously. It's not a big risk unless you have nation state level threats up against you because it's hard to pull off, they have to get a functioning device with explosives in it into the hands of the target and the effort involved in doing that is significant.