Friendly reminder that with the right backdoor, your smartphone battery is probably also an IOT bomb.
Discussion
Small bomb, but bomb nonetheless.
I just hope that if you carry it on your person you'd have enough time to notice it heating up? Small bomb near the right organ can do serious damage.
I think it’s time to move to pigeons for messaging. P2P doves 🕊️ 😂
Nah, pigeons won't be safe either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LYUsGwFneM
Wow, haven't even heard about the news from Libanon and thought yes totally agree
Now I get what prompted you to write it
Nah. It's a potential flame thrower maybe. But not a bomb. Lithium batteries just don't have the chemistry necessary to make a proper explosion. They can pressurize a battery case. But batteries are intentionally designed to blow out in a controlled way.
It would be good if Israel came out and explicitly said this was an attack done with explosives.
If true that would indeed be wise. Also for everyone else using that particular pager.
The few smart phone battery fire videos I've seen reminded me more of fountain fireworks than the explosive sound Bloomberg published.
There's discussion on HackerNews too about whether these are:
1. Normal lithium batteries with some software exploit;
2. Batteries modified (e.g. intercepted during shipping) to explode
3. Added explosives
Maybe they bought the batteries from whoever made these :-) https://youtu.be/xu13u-jWasg
Mmmmm.... thinking in those connected EVs... 🙄