bluescrn 3 days ago

That was a mistake. If they'd gone for the thinnest smartphone they could buy, there'd be no chance of anybody hiding a small bomb inside it.

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  • rdl 3 days ago

    Assuming you aren't joking: Pagers are receive-only, which is why they'd use them in preference to cellphones, which transmit even when just idling to register on cells.

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    • LinuxBender 3 days ago

      Pagers are receive-only

      This has not been true for some time. Pagers attach to a network in the same way a cell phone does. It is true they are more reliable in the receive only sense, as they can receive the broadcast message in the area they last attached to and the acknowledgment is not required to see the message but they do indeed transmit.

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      • blantonl 3 days ago

        Not these pagers

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        • rdl 3 days ago

          Yes, almost certainly HA was running a POCSAG network.

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  • kayodelycaon 3 days ago

    With a cell phone, the bomb is conveniently express-shipped to you by F-16. Or thoughtfully hand-delivered by the Mossad Postal Service.

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  • bewaretheirs 3 days ago

    Pagers are immune to a number of threats that two-way communications devices enable.

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aenis 3 days ago

Thats an interesting attack vector on its own. Who does not regularly carry a phone with them these days?

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