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Do you even need a hardware flaw?
If you could inject software that sent the processor into overload could you make the battery explode? [see the “don’t keep your electric bike inside” thread]If so are we all carrying around potential bombs? An iPhone battery is at least as big as a pager battery.
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The battery in my phone was this swollen and still didn't explode, I suspect it takes a lot to make them explode.
Reports are that they had ~ 15-20g of military explosive in them.
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No
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No, lithium batteries don’t explode, they flare. The images we’ve seen clearly demonstrate that these pagers exploded, so there was definitely some kind of explosive in them.
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I wonder if it’s possible that a hardware flaw was exploited via software to make lithium batteries explode. Not sure what the relative energies involved are but causing hardware to self destruct via a software attack is proven tech (stuxnet).