Exploding Communications Devices

This week we saw the beginning of the latest arms race. Israel apparently made pagers and walkie-talkies explode across Lebanon. Phones and other electronics are already surveillance devices, now they can be made into explosive devices. The battery of a fully charged phone contains quite a bit of energy, and it would be destructive if released at once. At this point it is not absolutely certain that it was the batteries that exploded, it could have been pre-installed explosive components, but either way we are entering a new, and ominous, era.

These two wars are already a testing ground for the new field of drone warfare. Now it is a testing ground for phones and electronics as explosive, as well as surveillance, devices. This is a whole new facet of warfare. This goes along with the scenario that we saw in the posting "The End Of The World As We Know It".

Suppose that there was malware which could be downloaded to phones without the user being aware of it? Remember that Israel developed Pegasus. And that malware could make the phone explode by releasing the energy of the battery at once? What if all the phones in a country exploded at once? 

That's only the beginning. We are now in the process of getting all cars to be electric, which are powered by batteries. There is a tremendous amount of energy in those batteries, and this makes every car into a potential bomb.

Do you remember the truck bombings that were in style during the 1990s? The World Trade Center in 1993, the Murrah Federal Building in 1995, and two U.S. embassies in east Africa in 1998? That was Stone Age stuff, we don't need that anymore. Now all that would be necessary is to cause the batteries of a few cars in the parking lot to simultaneously explode. 

It's equally perilous if, somewhere in the supply chain, explosive components were inserted. No one can ever be sure that their phone isn't going to explode.

Hezbollah was set up by Iran so this is a smart phone era continuation of what we saw in "Remembering The Haft e Tir Bombing", August 2024.