Just to be clear, the pager thing wasn’t exploding batteries, they had apparently been modified at the production level to have explosives in them, which could be triggered by the pager system itself.
What? 🤦 The comment I replied to said:
Just to be clear, the pager thing wasn’t exploding batteries, they had apparently been modified at the production level to have explosives in them, which could be triggered by the pager system itself.
It seems clear that “they had apparently been modified at the production level” is referring to the pagers, rather than their batteries. But the article is explaining how it could have been that the batteries were the part of the pager that had the explosives (in which case it was the battery that was exploding).
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You are inferring what someone meant, and then applying some super pedantic reasoning.
When manufacturing pagers, that includes the pager electronics, the case, and the battery.
The batteries themselves unmodified, standard batteries were not somehow hacked to explode. At some point in the manufacturing of the pagers which includes the battery, explosives were included.
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I think I am inferring correctly, especially since the person you’re talking about replied “of course not” to my question about if they read the article.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 week ago
alrighty then. Dig your heels in.
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
i encourage you to re-read the original comment in this thread after reading the article 😂