• dance_ninja@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    There are critical facilities that still make high use of pagers in the US.

    Edit: They added explosives to the pagers.

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        The explosive material was allegedly placed inside the pagers’ batteries and detonated by an external command that caused the batteries’ temperatures to overheat and trigger the explosion, the sources added.

        Yeah, you’re right. I read that article too quickly. Thought it said they just did something with malware to trigger the battery to explode.

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          Even if they did do that, afaik batteries can’t fail like that, especially little ones in pagers. If anything they’d just burst into flames and people would get a few burns