▲ 488 ▼ Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers (www.aljazeera.com) submitted 2 years ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 244 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Perhaps the latter? My first thought is still that the pagers intended use was for triggering explosives, and they were simply triggered early by the other side. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago You would not put it inside the pager if you want to use it as a trigger. You would also not ready-make thousands of those and let thousands of people carry them around. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Perhaps the latter? My first thought is still that the pagers intended use was for triggering explosives, and they were simply triggered early by the other side. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago You would not put it inside the pager if you want to use it as a trigger. You would also not ready-make thousands of those and let thousands of people carry them around. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago You would not put it inside the pager if you want to use it as a trigger. You would also not ready-make thousands of those and let thousands of people carry them around. permalink fedilink source parent