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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

edit: after 20 comments, i'm adding a post description here, since most of the commenters so far appear not to be reading the article:

This is about how surprisingly cheap it is (eg $15,000) to buy a complete production line to be able to manufacture batteries with a layer of nearly-undetectable explosives inside of them, which can be triggered by off-the-shelf devices with only their firmware modified.

screenshot of paragraph from the article saying "The process to build such batteries is well understood and documented. Here is an excerpt from one vendor’s site promising to sell the equipment to build batteries in limited quantities (tens-to-hundreds per batch) for as little as $15,000:" followed by a screenshot of "Flow-chart of Pouch Cell Lab-scale Fabrication" showing a 20 step process

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[-] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 97 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Jfc Christ Lemmy.

Every single comment misunderstanding the point. The batteries are exploding because there's explosives in them. This does make them exploding batteries. They explode because they are partially made with explosives. Please don't "well actually" this.

No this is not a description of something Israel did, it's a hypothetical way to do a similar attack to show how within reach of idiot terrorists it is.

Raising the idea of doing this so everyone is thinking about it is extremely bad for us all. Thanks Israel.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

Please don't well actually this.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[-] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

even electronic brain pancake crystal elderly

[-] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

Did it really need quotes?
Please don't "well actually" this

[-] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, yes it did. I didn't understand that sentence until I saw this version with quotes.

[-] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

Til I use "well actually" too much. I will edit, thank you for the constructive help with my shitpost

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I think there may be a couple edits needed in your comment. Reread slowly and get back to us.

[-] femtech@midwest.social 16 points 1 month ago

That does not make them exploding batteries, it had explosives in them. A suicide bomber is not an explosive human.

[-] eatthecake@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

A suicide bomber is not an explosive human but they are an exploding human.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

They're batteries. And they are explosive because of the explosives in them. They are discrete things that are explosives.

You're trying to make a weird, un-useful, pedantic distinction here.

Comment you replied to was making a far more useful correction, because people did not read the article.

[-] femtech@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

It's a needed distinction because the Israeli committed more war crimes with what they did.

[-] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

Do bombs explode? Or is it the explosives inside of them that are exploding?

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