Bairnardo Posted Tuesday at 16:34 Share Posted Tuesday at 16:34 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyl9048gx8t Quite a story. Genuine spy movie/Bond Villain shit happening in real life. Has any P&Ber ever rigged a large number of everyday devices to explode simultaneously? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted Tuesday at 16:36 Share Posted Tuesday at 16:36 Ongoing in Israel v Palestine thread. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted Tuesday at 16:36 Author Share Posted Tuesday at 16:36 Just now, Florentine_Pogen said: Ongoing in Israel v Palestine thread. Has anyone on that thread claimed responsibility? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted Tuesday at 16:47 Share Posted Tuesday at 16:47 12 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyl9048gx8t Quite a story. Genuine spy movie/Bond Villain shit happening in real life. Has any P&Ber ever rigged a large number of everyday devices to explode simultaneously? Mate of used to do that regularly. Spoiler Worked in a quarry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted Tuesday at 16:48 Author Share Posted Tuesday at 16:48 Just now, Melanius Mullarkey said: Mate of used to do that regularly. Hide contents Worked in a quarry. I don't believe for one second that's true. You've not got a mate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted Tuesday at 17:04 Share Posted Tuesday at 17:04 15 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: I don't believe for one second that's true. You've not got a mate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted Tuesday at 17:06 Share Posted Tuesday at 17:06 2 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: You stick with me MM. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted Tuesday at 17:10 Share Posted Tuesday at 17:10 After a tip-off, the Israeli defence ministry are frantically upgrading from teletype to modern fax machines to prevent retaliation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted Tuesday at 17:19 Share Posted Tuesday at 17:19 12 minutes ago, mathematics said: You stick with me MM. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted Tuesday at 17:25 Share Posted Tuesday at 17:25 9 minutes ago, BFTD said: After a tip-off, the Israeli defence ministry are frantically upgrading from teletype to modern fax machines to prevent retaliation. I’ve got a fax machine in my work. It could be me. BeeeeeeppscreeepeepeepeepppeeepBOOM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted Tuesday at 17:53 Share Posted Tuesday at 17:53 1 hour ago, Bairnardo said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyl9048gx8t Quite a story. Genuine spy movie/Bond Villain shit happening in real life. Has any P&Ber ever rigged a large number of everyday devices to explode simultaneously? The f**k is a 'pagger'? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted Tuesday at 18:02 Share Posted Tuesday at 18:02 People are still user pagers? f**king hell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbykdy Posted Tuesday at 18:03 Share Posted Tuesday at 18:03 9 minutes ago, Venti said: The f**k is a 'pagger'? AKA as "getting your totties" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted Tuesday at 18:07 Share Posted Tuesday at 18:07 1 minute ago, bobbykdy said: AKA as "getting your totties" TIL pagger is slang for fight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted Tuesday at 18:24 Share Posted Tuesday at 18:24 It will be interesting to see how the Israelis have done this. I've read some people say that the batteries exploded but I don't think you could rig up literally thousands of devices to explode at the same time like that by overheating the battery. Also, I'm unclear on the mechanism you could use to cause a lithium battery to explode - obviously they can and do explode when heated but how would you do that on the scale done here? It would seem to be very difficult. It's more likely that the Israel penetrated the manufacture of the pagers - apparently they had recently been supplied. So it's possible Israel placed agents into the factory, who put small charges and a remote detonator into every pager which were then triggered today. I would imagine that it might be more sophisticated than having someone on the assembly line with a pocket full of explosives, as that would be too easily to detect. Maybe they took control of a parts supplier and supplied them into the factory. Pretty remarkable if that's what was done, both to actually do it and also for there not to be any malfunction or explode during transit etc. One thing that you might say though is that if the Israelis could do something like this, couldn't they have used this information more valuably? If they could implant something into every device or someone control every device could they not used it to track senior commanders and use drone strikes or bombs? ALso, if you can blow up the pagers surely you can intercept information contained within them, would that not be more valuable? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted Tuesday at 19:01 Share Posted Tuesday at 19:01 35 minutes ago, ICTChris said: It will be interesting to see how the Israelis have done this. I've read some people say that the batteries exploded but I don't think you could rig up literally thousands of devices to explode at the same time like that by overheating the battery. Also, I'm unclear on the mechanism you could use to cause a lithium battery to explode - obviously they can and do explode when heated but how would you do that on the scale done here? It would seem to be very difficult. It's more likely that the Israel penetrated the manufacture of the pagers - apparently they had recently been supplied. So it's possible Israel placed agents into the factory, who put small charges and a remote detonator into every pager which were then triggered today. I would imagine that it might be more sophisticated than having someone on the assembly line with a pocket full of explosives, as that would be too easily to detect. Maybe they took control of a parts supplier and supplied them into the factory. Pretty remarkable if that's what was done, both to actually do it and also for there not to be any malfunction or explode during transit etc. One thing that you might say though is that if the Israelis could do something like this, couldn't they have used this information more valuably? If they could implant something into every device or someone control every device could they not used it to track senior commanders and use drone strikes or bombs? ALso, if you can blow up the pagers surely you can intercept information contained within them, would that not be more valuable? Mossad had been tracking their phones and targeting their leaders that way so Hezbollah switched to pagers. Pagers are receive only and don't give away locations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swordfishtrombone Posted Tuesday at 19:14 Share Posted Tuesday at 19:14 Mossad contracted out for this one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted Tuesday at 19:23 Share Posted Tuesday at 19:23 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted Tuesday at 19:26 Share Posted Tuesday at 19:26 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted Tuesday at 19:27 Share Posted Tuesday at 19:27 I used to buy hash off a guy who you had to contact via his pager about 25 years ago. Could've been me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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