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   rbowman wrote on 9/17/2024 5:34 PM:   
   > On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:52:01 -0600, Lucas McCain wrote:   
   >   
   >> Security sources confirmed that the devices were the latest models used   
   >> by Hezbollah and were thought to be critical in their communications   
   >> amidst their war efforts against Israel.   
   > I would love to know how you get a pager to explode. I've written   
   > interfaces to alphanumeric pagers and I don't remember KABOOM! in the   
   > protocol.   
   >   
      
   I used to have pagers before cellphone became popular. I haven't seen   
   people carrying pagers for a long time. Maybe pagers still have a niche   
   market here because pager signals can penetrate huge buildings and deep   
   underground concourses.   
      
   You would punch in a return phone number when you call somebody's pager.   
   I used to pull a prank when somebody dialed a wrong phone number and   
   left a pager phone number in my voice mail. I would call the wrong   
   caller's pager and leave my callback phone number as, e.g.  911-4567   
   (that was long time ago before all phone numbers became 10-digit). The   
   first three digits would direct the caller to 911 if he was dumb enough   
   to dial that number.   
      
   You can rig a tiny circuit that would respond to a special sequence of   
   digits on the pager's display to send electric current to detonate a   
   small explosive charge inside the pager. A computer telemarketing   
   mass-calling programme can store a long list of pager phone numbers and   
   the corresponding detonation code. At the right time, the computer will   
   call those pagers via a telephone modem and transmit the detonation   
   codes in regular keypad touch-tones. All the pagers receiving the   
   corresponding detonation code will go kaboom.   
      
   Telephone DTMF   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTMF   
      
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