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Take it with you on an international trip or three. Surely those airport scanners will pick it up.
by magicalhippo 9mo ago
Take it with you on an international trip or three. Surely those airport scanners will pick it up.
- hparadiz 9mo agoThat'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-shape 9mo agoWhy 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.
- hparadiz 9mo agoLol no. They had actual explosives in them. Small but enough to kill and maim.
- 9991 9mo ago> Weren't they just slightly modified pagers essentially rigged to overheat, rather than they actually put explosives in them? No
- ivl 9mo agoNo. 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.
- ImHereToVote 9mo agoYou mean the security theater complex?
- magicalhippo 9mo agoYeah, I mean surely that would catch it, right... right?