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Guy Swann 1y ago

This story is absolutely bonkers and keeps getting crazier. This will very likely create a wave of alternative hardware/devices and potentially bring back the hacker mentality. Honestly this scares the ever loving shit out of me because I do not for one second believe our govt wouldn't use this, even covertly, to attack its domestic "enemies."

I can't help but look at my phone now and wonder if they have a means of just making the battery burst into flames if the agency of evil decided it should.

I suddenly have a new respect for the coldcard's choice to have the casing transparent!

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Nunya Bidness 1y ago

Reading all these stories on my phone has propelled ’irony’ to levels I’ve not thought possible.

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TheWildHustle 1y ago

We're probably going to see a push towards more decentralized hardware solutions.

Builders Build.

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HyperTangled 1y ago

Builders build makes me think of

Cypherpunks write code

Good idea 👍

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BTCrevolutionary 1y ago

Wild stuff! They must have some moles on the inside to get this deep into their supply chain like that… probably with CIA/NSA/5 eyes… we are all living in a prison of our own making. Never should have allowed government to get this big. The founders had it right…

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@IsabelSydow Queen of Shrimps (but u can call me Dan.) 1y ago

It is fucked up in every which way.

Does beg the question: what alternate technologies could we come up with that would be safer and ultimately, for real private use.

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NotBiebs and 69 others 1y ago

😂

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HyperTangled 1y ago

Howdo i verify the software in that wire?

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Chris White 1y ago

I feel the same now especially when I hold my phone 10 inch from my face.

It is scary.

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Christian 1y ago

Should I be worried that my bitaxe is a suicide bomber?

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HyperTangled 1y ago

It will without the fan on 😄

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nix 1y ago

RT suggests it is just pagers and walkie talkies, and that all the exploding devices were purchased in a batch that was tampered with.

https://www.rt.com/news/604243-lebanon-explosion-second-beirut/

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Brett Phillips 1y ago

And that’s how you would spin it to protect your super power to zap attack anyone, anywhere.

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nix 1y ago

True, yet I don't believe they can make a normal battery explode with enough force to kill someone.

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YS 🫂 1y ago

Now think EVs! The amount of energy that can get released remotely... Well you get the drift

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Emperor Kuzco 1y ago

Been saying the same thing for years. I mean we all have saw the vape pen videos.

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Dale Jr 1y ago

These don’t look like battery explosions to me. Every Lithium Ion explosion I’ve seen involves fire, these seem to be a different type of explosive. Thinking there might be Mossad moles in the supply chain somewhere. Either way, terrifying for sure.

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61bb909b... 1y ago

They’d just put a super small chip and steal your money before doing this.

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Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

They hid explosives in them and waited to to it all at once. Its not the batteries.

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Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

Also it just has to be said... Israel is a terrorist organization. Stating the obvious, but somehow it's not obvious to most people.

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Guy Swann 1y ago

Yes I’m aware of that, but there have also been leaks suggesting that there were ways CIA and co used to trigger battery fires in devices in the past as well. It just made it very real that they would be more than willing to do that if they considered certain people inconvenient enough and I now can’t help but wonder if they can literally just do that on the same way they can use Pegasus to just completely own any major platform mobile device.

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Svoboda 1y ago

Agreed. The scale here is the terrifying thing to me.

The ability to attack entire collectives with one push of the button in surgical fashion. It's like a more effective tactical nuke.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i laugh in "the mobile phone is a useful, indispensible tool"

maybe not after all!

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ElectronicsQuestions 1y ago

A properly designed device can't cause a battery fire with software alone, it would have to be hardware modified. Any EE worth their salt would know to incorporate a physical protection circuit, such as a DW01 with the two accompanying MOSFETs, into any li-ion cell powered device that can have a failure mode that overloads the battery.

Not saying that every EE is worth their salt though, especially regarding things bought online in places like Ebay, Temu, etc.

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SelfBankt 1y ago

Warmongers poking the bear with outright terrorism.

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deeznuts 1y ago

Removable batteries Now

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Rudd-O 1y ago

We need to be more radical. Removable explosives NOW.