Comment by mandmandam
Comment by mandmandam 3 days ago
> Why was this flagged?
Anything any particularly motivated group dislikes here gets flagged; always been this way. Thanks for vouching.
> Are smartphones, for example, also vulnerable to it?
I also would love an answer to this question. Up until 12 minutes ago, I would never have thought _blowing up_ hundreds of pagers simultaneously was a realistic scenario.
If anyone can make sense of how this actually worked I'd be grateful. If it can be done to pagers, it seems likely that it can be done to other networked lithium devices: phones, tablets, laptops, smart watches, cameras, drones, medical devices, toys, and even electric vehicles.
Lest anyone tries to deny this happened: There's video of two separate cases on the nowinpalestine Instagram page.
"Political" (including geopolitical) posts on here lead to an enormous amount of anger and noise and I fully get why they're verboten. In this case it's actually a fascinating issue that has a lot of crossovers with the domain of this site, but invariably the conversation would get overwhelmed with geopolitical noise instead of just focusing on the technical aspects.