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edit: after 20 comments, i'm adding a post description here, since most of the commenters so far appear not to be reading the article:

This is about how surprisingly cheap it is (eg $15,000) to buy a complete production line to be able to manufacture batteries with a layer of nearly-undetectable explosives inside of them, which can be triggered by off-the-shelf devices with only their firmware modified.

screenshot of paragraph from the article saying "The process to build such batteries is well understood and documented. Here is an excerpt from one vendor’s site promising to sell the equipment to build batteries in limited quantities (tens-to-hundreds per batch) for as little as $15,000:" followed by a screenshot of "Flow-chart of Pouch Cell Lab-scale Fabrication" showing a 20 step process

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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Jfc Christ Lemmy.Every single comment misunderstanding the point.

Pedantics fighting pedantics LOL

The batteries are exploding because there's explosives in them. This does make them exploding batteries.

And when you put the same explosives inside a barbie doll and make it go off, then it wasn't an exploding barbie doll. Or was it? ;-)

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pedantics fighting pedantics LOL

I think you mean "pedants fighting pedants" :p

[–] ilega_dh@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

This really should be the unofficial name of places like lemmy and reddit

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Fun fact, a group of pedants is called a flem. To use it in a sentence: "the party was ruined by a flem of pedants".

[–] Irremarkable@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

I would say that's an accurate description for a barbie doll that explodes personally.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

sometimes a cigar is just a cigar