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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.

  • 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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