Three grams of explosive on a custom board, that they can detonate at will.
Kinda terrifying actually.
I feel like this should unironically be a war crime. The potential for collateral is ridiculously high.
Edit: I’m amazed at how successfully this is being spun as a highly-targeted, high-precision attack with no collateral when it’s pretty much the opposite. You can’t control what they do with the pagers after they get them. Ffs there were kids killed.
I saw a post earlier on my mastodon mentioning this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Mines,_Booby-Traps_and_Other_Devices I do see “portable objects” mentioned, but given that the section is otherwise about stuff associated with children, I’m not sure if pagers would qualify or not.
An ounce of high explosive won’t take down a plane. Even at cruising altitude.
I dunno, did you see the picture of what happened to the pager that was on the table? I could see that going through a few mm of aluminium.
Quite the supply chain attack.
If what’s described in the story is accurate, this is incredibly impressive work.
This is a wild new form of terrorist attack.
I can’t think of any other time consumer goods were sabotaged in a mass fatality attack like this.
Now I’m just a tiny bit afraid my phone is about to explode in my face.
Fucking nuts.
Mass detonation at the exact same time is spooky deus ex shit.
Can hear Adam Jenson narrating this news crawl
