2024-09-19 19:59:00
On Tuesday, thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah to communicate in Lebanon. On Wednesday, hundreds of words followed the terrorist group.
How can we provide the devices? Can something like this happen to my cell phone? And are electronics always an explosion hazard? BILD answers the most important questions:
How do explosives get into machines?
Terrorist expert Peter R. Neumann (49) has suspected in a podcast with BILD deputy Paul Ronzheimer that the Israeli secret service Mossad is behind it. That Hezbollah terrorists may have even ordered the devices directly from Mossad agents. Lebanese authorities reported that the devices had a local council containing weapons and code built into them. They can be detonated when a coded message is sent to them, which causes the explosives to go off simultaneously.
This works by an electrical discharge that the pager battery can generate remotely, explains scientist Sabrina Wahler “YOU DO”.
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Can my phone explode too?
Pagers and walkie-talkies are apparently prepared months before delivery. Computer researcher Nicholas Reece of New York University explained: “They planted the explosives, and then they recovered the equipment. DailyMail.
This includes one Smartphone doing so will be much more difficult. Because there is not enough space for this in modern devices. In addition, it is more difficult to open and close them in a way that users do not notice. According to Reece, many large manufacturers also have very strict supply chain management, which still needs to be put in place.
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Can hackers hack my phone?
“Theoretically, hacker attacks on the operating systems of mobile phones, tablets or notebooks are possible. This can also put more strain on the battery,” explains Dirk General-Kuchel, editor-in-chief of COMPUTER BILD.
However, Android, iOS or Windows operating systems have systems that turn off if the device overheats. Similar to what happens in the summer when the iPhone log off after a few hours in the hot sun.
Can the battery become dangerous?
Smartphones use lithium batteries with higher performance than pagers or walkie-talkies. In different cases, these can be defective. General-Kuchel: “Some people then lift themselves up and ‘blow’ their cell phones – in extreme cases they even start to leak.”
In 2016, for example, Samsung even had to recall the Galaxy Note 7 worldwide. An error in the manufacture of the batteries led to the development of excessive heat and eventually the explosion of a total of 35 engines.
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