I’m not an electrical engineer but I did work with explosives a little in the army. You’d only need a small amount of high explosive to do some serious damage to someone if their phone was their pocket and that explosive went off. Modern phones have plenty of empty spaces to stuff full of enough explosives to do lots of damage. It’d be a lot easier to detect then just making the Li-ion batteries ignite but who can say what the IDF can smuggle into the supply chain.
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Spes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think cell phone batteries can be wired to explode, but I am not an electrical engineer.
teft@piefed.social 1 day ago
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
They would likely be detected by modern airport security if they put in actual explosives.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
The israeli pager/walkie-talkie attack’s tampered equipments (filled with explosives) completely bypassed airport security…
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Actually that is true. So you are right they probably could easily rig phones.
teft@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Yes, i mentioned in my comment how they’d be easier to detect.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No but I bet they could be used do melt the device, imagine if all of a sudden nobody had phones, chaos.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Wired? Certainly.
Doing it without extra wiring is probably possible too. You’d have to override the battery charge controller, which is probably not available to an app, if to Android at all. But I’d be unsurprised if there was some exploit that made it possible.