Comment by andyjohnson0
Comment by andyjohnson0 10 months ago
> The affected pagers were from a new shipment that Hezbollah had received in recent days, according to sources familiar with the matter cited by the Wall Street Journal.
Presumably someone, likely Israel, intercepted them before they got to Hezbollah and added an explosive payload that could be remotely triggered.
Hard to see how a remote exploit could detonate the battery, which was my initial thought.
> Hard to see how a remote exploit could detonate the battery
Especially seeing as pagers typically use more stable NiMH batteries over lithium ones.