• fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    I’m a computer hacker

    🤨

    it’s looking more and more like these were done by hacking the devices and detonating the battery.

    🤨🤨🤨🤨

    • nuke@sh.itjust.worksM
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      I’m a computer hacker

      Careful. I heard about this guy on the news. Apparently he’s a famous hacker, goes by the name Four Chan.

    • SeattleRain@lemmy.world
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      Very cute but there are reports of people analyzing the pagers and not finding any evidence of explosives. This is a developing story so maybe this will come to not but your incredulity doesn’t change these facts in the ground.

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        And if you were even a little familiar with lithium battery fires you’d know such reports don’t match up with the reports of exploding pagers killing people. So which is it?

        We’ve had numerous cases of phones catching on fire in people’s pockets and resulting in horrible burns throughout the years, but how many of these have killed people? A lithium battery is an incendiary device under the right circumstances, not an explosive one. And you need a bigger battery than one in a pager to cause enough damage in a short enough timeframe to kill a person before they can save themselves.

        Not to mention that it’s not a simple matter to make a lithium battery catch on fire remotely. What are they gonna do, try to draw more current than the battery can provide? That’s not going to make a battery catch on fire.

        • leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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          Indeed, supposing they could use software to cause the battery to ignite is one thing (the most plausible part) but your other points are the crux of it.

          I’m a boomboom builder btw