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„Guten Abend, wir sinken, darf ich mich setzen?“

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2024-09-17 21:49:56

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I place my beer on the AR-924, same family though. The product page disappeared a few hours ago, but it’s still in the internet archive.
https://mstdn.strafpla.net/@chris/113153556769556246

2024-09-17 15:17:34

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If this really is a picture of one of the pagers that exploded, it seems to be the model “Gold Apollo Rugged Pager AR924”:
The case does not seem burned or molten, that may be an indicator for an explosive and not a battery going off.
#pager #apollo #gold
https://www.apollosystemshk.com/product/42.html
https://mstdn.strafpla.net/system/media_attachments/files/113/153/567/093/802/962/original/c3fccf9d7f58bcf6.jpeg

2024-09-17 15:04:11

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I will not look for more videos of these events but the one I’ve just seen shows none of the smoke and dirt that usually is part of a LiIon battery going off.
To me this looks like a modern explosive.

2024-09-17 14:52:27

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Still that would be impressive. But we’ve had #stuxnet, so there are people working on even more elaborate attacks.

2024-09-17 14:48:02

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LiIon batteries can burn and “explode” quite violently so if there’s a way to remotely hack the devices’ firmware and if the batteries in the devices are cheap and don’t have any additional protection circuitry that makes them stay within safe parameters, I can imagine that there is a way to trigger an unsafe condition.
Many people tend to carry their pager in their trousers, close to the body, so a battery burning violently could do a lot of damage.

2024-09-17 14:27:24

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So Israel managed to distribute a ~1000 pagers with builtin explosives to Hezbollah? Sounds possibly very targeted but very difficult.
And they all use the same model, from the same single source and never open it to repair? OTOH people higher up in the hierarchy may use newer models, as a sign of their position. And if Israel had access to the metadata at least, they may be able to infer who is who.
Very interesting story.

2024-08-02 06:45:53

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Das ist meines Wissens nach falsch. Tempolimits gelten für alle VerkehrsteilnehmerInnen und Du kannst mit dem Fahrrad sogar Punkte für’s Auto sammeln.

2024-08-02 06:33:25

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Anhänger (und Fahr- und Lastenräder) kann man auch **bauen**. Bis vor kurzem war es durchaus noch üblich, nicht nur zu konsumieren, sondern am Fahrrad auch selbst zu schrauben.
Heute Höchstgewicht, ABS-Pflicht, TÜV , morgen Führerscheinpflicht und Profiltiefe von Straßenschuhen. Wer kein Auto hat, soll gefälligst zu Hause bleiben.

2024-05-27 10:05:00

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“As of Friday evening, the videos remained on Bushnell’s website and Facebook page, the Coeur D’Alene press reported.”
Wouldn’t that mean that #Bushnell is committing defamation over and over again?

2024-04-21 18:22:01

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Es ist aber auch schwierig, die Information sinnvoll auszutauschen.
Ich hatte mal überlegt, ob man mit Vorspeisen oder Dips eine Baseline etablieren könnte.

2024-04-21 18:08:06

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“Ist das scharf?” ist aber auch so eine tolle Kartoffelfrage.

2024-03-30 12:10:38

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Ah, ok, in theory you are right.
But #xz has been executed many times since / if it was installed on our systems.
Not executing it now may feel good, but it does not make a difference, it’s still the same software that was executed a day ago, before we knew.
If I don’t execute it now for fear of some nefarious activity I must expect that this activity already happened.
So avoiding to execute it today only makes sense if I am about to reimage the system from scratch, immediately.

2024-03-30 11:19:41

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I was wondering about that, too, but I don‘t think that‘s a very likely scenario here.
Malware infected binaries presenting a wrong version number would be very easy to stumble upon by accident - and the code changes would be, too.
One does not put that much effort into injecting malware just to give it away like this.