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0 pointsmagicalhippo1mo ago0 comments

Take it with you on an international trip or three. Surely those airport scanners will pick it up.

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That's actually a great point. Out of the hundreds of pagers that were out in the wild you'd think one of them went through an airport check at some point and got flagged.

embedding-shape1mo ago

Why would it get flagged? Weren't they just slightly modified pagers essentially rigged to overheat, rather than they actually put explosives in them?

Besides, if I was in a terrorist cell, had a pager for communicating, and was taking a vacation flight, I think I might leave that pager behind for a week.

ivl1mo ago

No.

They weren't flagged because they went into Lebanon which has very little import security, and because it was a supply chain attack.

The batteries were swapped for a combination battery / explosive charge. The follow-up attack where Hezbollah moved to using walkie-talkies that were also rigged to explode was the real shocker, though.

99911mo ago

> Weren't they just slightly modified pagers essentially rigged to overheat, rather than they actually put explosives in them?

hparadiz1mo ago

Lol no. They had actual explosives in them. Small but enough to kill and maim.

ImHereToVote1mo ago

You mean the security theater complex?

magicalhippoOP1mo ago

Yeah, I mean surely that would catch it, right... right?

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hparadiz1mo ago

That's actually a great point. Out of the hundreds of pagers that were out in the wild you'd think one of them went through an airport check at some point and got flagged.

embedding-shape1mo ago

Why would it get flagged? Weren't they just slightly modified pagers essentially rigged to overheat, rather than they actually put explosives in them?

Besides, if I was in a terrorist cell, had a pager for communicating, and was taking a vacation flight, I think I might leave that pager behind for a week.

ivl1mo ago

No.

They weren't flagged because they went into Lebanon which has very little import security, and because it was a supply chain attack.

99911mo ago

> Weren't they just slightly modified pagers essentially rigged to overheat, rather than they actually put explosives in them?

hparadiz1mo ago

Lol no. They had actual explosives in them. Small but enough to kill and maim.

ImHereToVote1mo ago

You mean the security theater complex?

magicalhippoOP1mo ago

Yeah, I mean surely that would catch it, right... right?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse