[goldcd]

But if you wanted to put 30g of explosive into a device, you wouldn't just want it sat there looking out of place to any curious person with a screw-driver. My guess is that you'd want to put it inside a component like say a LiPo pouch that looks like it belongs there. Half-battery, half-explosive - and maybe hijack the BMS components to also allow it to be triggered.

[arwhatever]

Anyone care to appreciate how effectively the new CT X-ray machines used by the TSA could have picked up the explosive materials in these electronic devices?

That might be one way to restore faith in one’s supply chain.

[tptacek]

My understanding is that they were extremely well concealed, and would have been difficult to detect with simple internal visual inspection.

[gruez]

>My understanding is that they were extremely well concealed

Source? I'm not sure how you can concealed any meaningful amount of PCB/explosive in a pager/radio, unless you're hoping that your target never opens the plastic casing, or doesn't know what the internals are supposed to look like.

[Scoundreller]

> My understanding is that they were extremely well concealed, and would have been difficult to detect with simple internal visual inspection.

Obviously the mistake was forgetting to sacrifice a handful of units into a bomb calorimeter.

The joules would have been way off.