• nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    2 months ago

    Open up the back of the device and check inside. If you see something that looks like a lump of modeling clay with wires sticking out of it crammed into the corner, your device has been compromised, and you should maybe try to remember whether you bought said device during a visit to Lebanon. After you put it in the middle of an empty driveway with a wall of sandbags around it and call the bomb squad, that is.

    (Trying to associate literal exploding pagers with hacking borders on the surreal.)

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      2 months ago

      So are we pro right to repair to make it easier to find these or anti-RTP to makenit more difficult to insert these?

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      2 months ago

      The individual explosives were probably 15 or 20 grams of material that could be disguised as part of the case, components, or battery. Plastic explosives can be molded, painted, and wired to resemble almost anything.

      IDK for sure, it could be as you describe, but I doubt it because the pagers were in place for months and many of them were likely disassembled/repaired in that time.