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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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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Even though your edit clarified it, I wish we’d stop calling them “exploding batteries”. The battery isn’t the explosive, it’s the explosives that were hidden in the device. I’ve already encountered far too many morons describing conspiracies where the big bad government could make your iPhone explode.

[–] grudan@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

Title felt misleading.

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

but the article is about exploding batteries, no?

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's like saying exploding cars when you're really talking about a bomb placed in a car...

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago

"A bomb going 80 mph on the highway exploded."

Doesn't give the right information.

And if we're being pedantic, when a bomb explodes, so does everything around it. Exploding doesn't require a chemical reaction. It's the act of tearing apart quickly. So yes, the car exploded.

That's in English though. Other languages may be different.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml -5 points 3 months ago

I wish we’d stop calling them “exploding batteries”. The battery isn’t the explosive, it’s the explosives that were hidden in the device.

Do you want to stop calling them exploding pagers too? How about other exploding things? And what should https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_pager_explosions be renamed to? Maybe 2024 Lebanon explosions of explosives inside of pagers? 🙄