Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way!
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days agoi would assume on a unit level cost, these pagers are probably cheaper, as evidenced by recent Ukrainian advances, however the cost of actually getting these units in the hands of the people that need them is going to slowly approach infinity depending on how aggressively you wish to do it.
Also, other countries are allowed to sell military equipment, there’s nothing innately illegal with that. Although the people of those countries may not like it, they do generally have the rights to protest it however.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
We know people in Palestine have still have access to phones and Internet. I’m sure if Israel wanted, they could sneak new phones in the region. They literally control the whole of Palestine.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
i mean sure, but making phones explode is a much harder task than making pagers explode, unless Palestinians use almost exclusively flip phones. Which i assume they dont.
there’s just not very much room inside a modern phone, neither is there a good way to control the actual explodey bit. Unless you stuffed an entirely separate mechanism inside of it. To my knowledge phones don’t exactly ship with GPIO pins on them. I guess you could probably jank it like ukraine is doing, but idk how well that would work.