Were they given loaded pagers? I don't get it.
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There are two theories.
One is that some military grade plastic explosives were loaded into shipments of pagers, given that Hezbollah were quite open about saying they were gunna use them to foil attempts at Mossad tracking their phones. But, one would expect that peeps would have a good look before using, IDK. do people even check their devices before using them?
The other theory is Edward Snowden's: that Israelis had a way of overwhelming the devices (sending lots of messages at once, or something, so that the batteries overheated.
I;m pondering a combination of the two. An explosive with a separate receiver for simultaneous explosion, but something had to provide the heat to trigger the fuse, unless the explosive/receiver also had another gadget attached that overheated the battery. Relying on all the batteries to overheat simultaneously doesn't make sense as each battery has different strengths and weaknesses, just like car batteries (not all Teslas catch on fire simultaneously)
A signal, to a device loaded with explosives, then.
Each pager would have a different ID, and the Israeli's would have to know each ID to ping them independently, which is complicated. It'd be easier to have 1 signal to ping them all at once, to the same receiver in each pager.