It’s why critical equipment has a very tight delivery deadline. If it arrives a minute late it’s assumed somebody tampered with it along the supply chain and the equipment is rejected.
Pagers and walkie-talkies over cellphones – a security expert explains why Hezbollah went low-tech for communications.
Submitted 2 months ago by 101@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
mkwt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also, Israel already assassinated someone via their cell phone way back in 1996.
robotica@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought that only happened in GTA 5 😕
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Where do you think they get the idea?
schnokobaer@feddit.org 2 months ago
Hey now 1996 is not way back! … Or is it? … Am I old?
n3cr0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does that mean, all of us are wearing a bomb with Lithium battery, most of the time? On the other hand: does such battery really be this hazardous? I thought they catch fire and burn down slowly.
krelvar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Your pocket bomb doesn’t have any actual bomb in it (unless the Israelis put some there, like the Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies.) They can burn fast, but afaik they don’t explode, just like gunpowder doesn’t explode. It burns very fast. On the other hand, they can produce gas and burst the battery pack, which might be considered an explosion, but I’d argue it’s not actually one.
Which isn’t going to make someone who has it happen in their pocket feel any better.
If I have my physics wrong, please correct me, I’m not a lithium bomb expert :)
0x0@programming.dev 2 months ago
Only if the zionists added some grams of explosive material like they did with the pagers.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The cylindrical lithium cells can go off like a rocket, but the pouch cells in a phone just burn and are very difficult to extinguish.
Apart from the Galaxy Note 7 which had a design flaw in the battery, it’s incredibly rare for a phone battery to catch fire without physical damage though.