• thr0w4w4y2
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    2 months ago

    quite aside from the question of how you hack thousands of pagers to make them explode, what are we carrying around in our daily lives that are one internet command away from blowing up?

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      2 months ago

      You don’t. If you’ve seen the videos this are clearly high explosives. These devices were interdicted by Mossad long ago and triggered remotely.

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        2 months ago

        imagine the resources needed to pull something like this

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          Not much. The hard part is developing the trigger mechanism. After that, you just need a guy doing assembly to add the extra part. Or you stop the truck when it leaves the factory and delay it a day while you install the parts.