• @Furball
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    1612 hours ago

    Damn the Iranian ambassador sure was young

    • @[email protected]
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      147 hours ago

      Don’t forget all those Hamas nurses and doctors. Totally not indiscriminate terrorism against civilians. Israel never does that!

      • @[email protected]
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        67 hours ago

        Hezbollah*

        I know it was probably an innocent mistake but people have been mixing these two up a lot recently

    • @[email protected]
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      -156 hours ago

      Enjoy losing the electronics handheld market to the Chinese as everyone gets paranoid about Western smartphones. Will you still be laughing when this hack inevitably leaks and is used to harm you or your family. I’m a computer hacker and it’s looking more and more like these were done by hacking the devices and detonating the battery. But hey, at least you got to do a completely militarily impotent terrorism against a group fighting a genocide.

      • @[email protected]
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        17 minutes ago

        All credible reporting I’ve seen is relatively certain that it was a small amount of military grade explosives.

        If you have the device in front of you, and are prepping it for your secret operation, that also seems like a much more straightforward solution than trying to manipulate a lithium ion battery in a way that both allows it to work normally for years, but then explode violently enough to kill someone holding it.

      • @[email protected]
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        105 hours ago

        The leading theory is a supply chain attack and that explosives were planted but you would know that if you could read, mr hacker

        • @[email protected]
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          -52 hours ago

          No that’s not the leading theory outside the west. Regardless even if explosives were planted do you think that is going to make consumers feel better about buying western electronics after seeing how their intelligence agencies flagrantly break international laws. We have rules of war for a reason and you chuck fucks are about to find out why first hand when your tech sector takes a hit.

        • @[email protected]
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          -52 hours ago

          Okay boomer. Computer security isn’t some underground scene anymore. It’s a huge industry. Saying your a computer hacker is like calling yourself an accountant now. So unbelievable!

          • @[email protected]
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            51 hour ago

            If I called myself an accountant then implied something that’s very implausible about accounting you’d be right to question it.

            These weren’t hacked battery overloads they were explosives.

      • @[email protected]
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        56 hours ago

        I’m a computer hacker

        🤨

        it’s looking more and more like these were done by hacking the devices and detonating the battery.

        🤨🤨🤨🤨

        • nukeM
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          I’m a computer hacker

          Careful. I heard about this guy on the news. Apparently he’s a famous hacker, goes by the name Four Chan.

        • @[email protected]
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          -32 hours ago

          Very cute but there are reports of people analyzing the pagers and not finding any evidence of explosives. This is a developing story so maybe this will come to not but your incredulity doesn’t change these facts in the ground.

          • @zanariyo
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            62 hours ago

            And if you were even a little familiar with lithium battery fires you’d know such reports don’t match up with the reports of exploding pagers killing people. So which is it?

            We’ve had numerous cases of phones catching on fire in people’s pockets and resulting in horrible burns throughout the years, but how many of these have killed people? A lithium battery is an incendiary device under the right circumstances, not an explosive one. And you need a bigger battery than one in a pager to cause enough damage in a short enough timeframe to kill a person before they can save themselves.

            Not to mention that it’s not a simple matter to make a lithium battery catch on fire remotely. What are they gonna do, try to draw more current than the battery can provide? That’s not going to make a battery catch on fire.

            • @[email protected]
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              259 minutes ago

              Indeed, supposing they could use software to cause the battery to ignite is one thing (the most plausible part) but your other points are the crux of it.

              I’m a boomboom builder btw

      • @Furball
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        15 hours ago

        What are you on about