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Amazingly enough, the concept of hacking personal communications devices to explode was explored recently in the "phone strike" scene in Jackpot!, an Amazon MGM
by Apocryphon 2y ago
Amazingly enough, the concept of hacking personal communications devices to explode was explored recently in the "phone strike" scene in Jackpot!, an Amazon MGM Studios movie released a month ago.
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- paxys 2y agoAnd Kingsman: The Secret Service from 2014.
- Apocryphon 2y agoWeren't those surgical implants, though? A bit different, not an innocuous everyday gadget turned deadly. More of a Laputan Machine.
- peeters 2y agoYeah GP is probably merging two things that happen in the movie. One, the villain (played by Samuel Jackson) implants all of his "inner circle" with exploding implants to guarantee compliance, and late in the movie they are hacked so that the entire group is simultaneously assassinated with a single signal. Two, that same villain gives out free SIM cards to everyone on the planet that can be remotely triggered to throw everyone in range into a homicidal rage. The latter is probably what GP was thinking of, but they misremembered the effect.
- eigenspace 2y agoThis is nothing new. Israel has done attacks like this since the 60s.
- Apocryphon 2y agoThey've remotely triggered multiple consumer devices simultaneously?