So any connected lithium battery is the new attack vector? Pagers, Walkie Talkies, Solar Cells, Cell Phones, Cars, Scooters, etc….

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Today it’s everything apparently. Pagers was yesterday.
Lithium battery explosions are well understood at this point. The injuries do not match that. There must have been another explosive added to the case. Go look up lithium battery fire videos. More road flare than bomb.
nah... there was a vector of hydrogen gas and lead acid batteries, an episode of Mr Robot featured this, in a mostly closed environment, and entailed haxing the ventilators to turn off so it reached oxidising ratio that is a whole different kettle of fish and air that has enough H2 in it to go bang in any serious way is already too low in oxygen for humans to be in it plus it's pretty hard to get lithium batteries to leak much hydrogen no, these old school pagers had probably got special batteries with little globs of C4 explosive or semtex or something and a small, passive radio device embedded in them that waits for a specific coded signal on a specific set of radio frequencies to charge their capacitor and discharge into the C4 blob most likely the devices had NiMH battery cells, which are quite bulky for the power capacity, as these are old school tech, and probably don't work with the new 3.6V lithium battery voltage but rather the old school 2.5-3V of 1.4V/cell NiMH
their state media claimed as such. "Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television showed what it said were images of Motorola pagers that were being used before the attack. “These pagers were detonated with high-tech by the Israeli enemy,” Hezbollah lawmaker Ibrahim Mousawi told the group’s TV network. Motorola Solutions did not immediately respond to Bloomberg’s requests for comment." the bloomberg article is paywalled but this references bloombergs article
Reports were Taiwan. Not Motorola. Manufacturer : Gold Apollo Model : Rugged Pager AR-924 Country of Manufacturing: Budapest Per News articles, if you trust those. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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R 1 year ago
There is a new business opportunity for ankle phone holders. Lot of guys rethinking putting a lithium battery in the front pocket😂
From today, not a battery fire.
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According to sources reporting, in this video, we see the moment when a Hezbollah walkie-talkie exploded during the funeral of four terrorists who died in yesterday's pager explosions. There are no confirmations yet, but there are reports of similar explosions in other areas of Lebanon.
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It was initially reported Motorola from my understanding. But that CEO from Taiwan said he was going to sue Israel for tampering with their devices which seemed like confirmation for me.
Its not censorship issue rather its an echo chamber issue. People on nostr like nostr because they don’t get exposure to that kind of content so it doesn’t get shared or engaged with by top accounts. You might try searching #news hashtags to find that content.
I don't know if I'd call it censorship, but I definitely wouldn't call the echo chamber "censorship resistance," you see what I'm saying?