Can you remotely blow up a mobile device?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
On September 17th, 2024 thousands of pagers intended for use by Hezbollah exploded across Lebanon and Syria. The next, hundred of walkie-talkies detonated in the same manner. This operation was precedented in design, but not in scale -- and across the planet, people began to wonder: Is my own equipment safe? Can you really remotely blow up a mobile device?
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.7 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:11.6 | A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noll. They call me Ben. We are joined |
| 0:35.1 | as always with our super producer Andrew Triforce Howard. Most importantly, you are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:47.2 | Tonight folks we are following up on a conversation we had in a recent strange news program as we have been |
| 0:55.2 | discussing and perhaps you have been discussing attacks in the ongoing conflict |
| 1:00.7 | between Hezbollah and Israel have escalated as we record. |
| 1:05.4 | Guys, I'm sure we all saw this. |
| 1:07.4 | Did you hear that the Israeli military recently breached airport signals in Beirut just over the weekend? |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, just that, you know, the headline of it, but I'm sure that has implications beyond what's occurring to me. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, and there was a whole other large missile attack that took out several high-ranking |
| 1:26.9 | members as well as high-ranking members of other organizations that Israel sees as an enemy? |
| 1:32.4 | As well as civilians. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah, and we are recording, we'll talk about this in listener mail and strange news, |
| 1:39.2 | but we are recording amid a crisis level chlorine gas disaster here in the Atlanta metro area. |
| 1:47.0 | Is that what you'd call an airborne toxic event? |
| 1:50.0 | Isn't that what that is? |
| 1:52.0 | Sure. Yeah, okay. The air is bad. It actually is sour and |
| 1:58.0 | weirdly enough guys last time we were recording there was a hurricane bearing down on us. |
| 2:03.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:04.0 | And now there's like a statewide chemical fire. |
| 2:07.0 | Yes, yeah. |
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