@skillissuer
@discuss.tchncs.deselling or giving away a pager provided by hezbollah hq would require reprogramming it and this means losing this painstakingly set up communication channel you big dumb bitch
you can't send it a message without having access to transmitter and that's either subscription service or requires having a transmitter, phone is something everyone has and it's a normal solution to this problem
i've seen other source stating that it was something between 30 and 60g
give it a few days, nobody knows what is going on and only thing you can get are rumors. some people still think it was lithium battery
these pagers were issued by hezbollah higher-ups, for one-way communication with their hq. there's little reason for them to sell them or even lend to family because you can't call from this thing or communicate with it any other way because it's receive only. civilian casualties are probably low for this reason
technical aspect seems to be for now that israeli secret services intercepted and sabotaged thousands of pagers to be distributed for hezbollah operatives, then blew them up all at once. it does look like small, reportedly less than 20g each explosive charge, but orange site accepted truth is that it was haxxorz blowing up lithium batteries. israelis already did exactly this thing but with phone in targeted assassination, and actual volume of such bomb would be tiny (about 10ml)
secretive agency does secretive agency shit
tal: how can i make this to be about mee?
don't put plastic explosives in electronics of your choice that'd be pretty safe i guess
Israeli secret services used exploding phone previously, it's not a stretch to assume that they tapped into supply chain of pagers and brought a pallet of pagers with a low tens of grams sized bomb inside
also lithium batteries don't explode like that
that would be the simplest explanation, and they did that covertly, perhaps somewhere further up supply chain, yes