Either Mossad has bribed or infiltrated the producer of these devices to incorporate little explosives into them.

Or they found a way to update the software on them to simply overload the battery in the most explosive way possible?

Scary what the implications could be for all of us, as we all carry a always-on device that any number of non friendly nations could try to hack into.

Update: some clever personen X remarked that another option is that Mossad only intercepted these devices and replaced the battery with a half-battery-half-book device.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567299

this is likely some sort of a supply chain attack. The videos I saw show serious explosions for radio pagers. Can lithium battery do this? Or the most likely explanation is that they were rigged with some explosives?

If this isn't the craziest cyber warfare story of this year, what story is?

Is there a non-paywalled, more technical writeup on this?