Pagers explode across Lebanon in attack targeting Hezbollah members

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quite aside from the question of how you hack thousands of pagers to make them explode, what are we carrying around in our daily lives that are one internet command away from blowing up?

You don't. If you've seen the videos this are clearly high explosives. These devices were interdicted by Mossad long ago and triggered remotely.

imagine the resources needed to pull something like this

Not much. The hard part is developing the trigger mechanism. After that, you just need a guy doing assembly to add the extra part. Or you stop the truck when it leaves the factory and delay it a day while you install the parts.

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