[mcast]

It's pretty insane to see remote detonation technology used and implemented in 1996, considering cell phones looked like Nokia bricks and the RF hardware needed to implement this needs to fit in a pretty tight space in the phone.

[moduspol]

Well cell phones have been used as detonators for quite some time, right? It's not too much of a stretch.

[dghlsakjg]

Its one thing to figure out how to wire the vibrator in a phone into an external explosive activation circuit.

Its a whole other thing to do a supply chain intercept on an entire factory run of pagers, build a difficult to detect explosive into them, get them into the hands of your enemies, and remotely trigger them over infrastructure you don't directly control.

This is an incredible level of execution. And, presumably, the IDF or some attached intelligence agency demonstrating how deeply they own their adversary's networks.