10mo ago

Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea

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Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie's blog

10mo ago

The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it.

www.bunniestudios.com /blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/

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No kidding. Is this not some kind of war crime?
- Yes, indiscriminate bombing is a war crime.
  
  It seemed pretty discriminate to me
  
  Thought sabotaging enemy equipment to explode isn't.
  Had this been a bunch of Russian or Wagner Group radio equipment exploding because they had been rigged by Ukraine, it wouldn't be a war crime - combatants don't stop being valid targets even if they are on leave and are at fault of endangering the civil population, possibly themselves causing a war crime by effectively using civilians as human shields in the process.
- I would think involving civilians usually is. Not like it's a first for them.
- In the second world war, guerrilla forces scattered large quantities of booby-trapped objects likely to be attractive to civilians. The idea was to cause widescale and indiscriminate death. The Japanese manufactured a tobacco pipe with a charge detonated by a spring-loaded striker. The Italians produced a headset that blew up when it was plugged in. More than half a century later, a global treaty came into force which “prohibited in all circumstances to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects that are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material”. Has anyone told Israel and its jubilant supporters that, as Brian Finucane of the International Crisis Group points out, it is a signatory to the protocol?
- It should be if it isn’t.
- Is turning anything into a bomb a good idea?
When I first read this, I was kind of hoping it was in shower thoughts.
- It is a shower thought, just by a profilic tech celebrity.
This article spent more time explaining the logistics on building pager-bombs than it did actually explaining why building pager-bombs is a bad idea.
- If I Did It, by Bunnie Huang 😂
The first time I heard about BlueHat was watching Bunnie give a talk on hardware supply chain security in Israel in 2019.
Two questions:
How many years do you think you'd need to execute an attack like this? A bit less than 5 years?
How much do you want to bet that whoever designed this terrorist attack was inspired by Bunnie's talk in Israel?
cant wait for the next post, 'water is wet'
so much insight
- Not sure if sarcasm, but the article is actually super insightful into a few different methods bad actors could use to accomplish the same feat (short of giving them a formula, from what I can read, but I'm not a battery maker)

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