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Gig Economy Terror: What Israel's Pager Bomb Attack Means for You

2024/9/26
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Robert sits down with Mia and Gare to discuss the recent Mossad attack on Hezbollah using pagers and radios impregnated with explosives. It turns out this is an incredibly easy thing to do, an attack that opens a massive pandora's box with the potential to change daily life for all of us in terrifying ways.

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Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie's blog (bunniestudios.com))

We still don’t know how the Lebanon pager attack happened. Here’s what we do know about our own electronic devices | CNN Business)

Study reveals robust performance in aged detonator explosive (lanl.gov))

What is the PETN explosive used by Israel in walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah? Can dogs detect them? (msn.com))

How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers - The New York Times (archive.is))

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