Oh, no doubt. It is horrible and the only reason I engage in this sort of technical speculation is as a coping strategy. But in that vein: we have seen that it works with what I would call old technology: pagers and walkie talkies aren’t miniaturised as effectively as possible. We all know that old technology often has surprising amounts of just air inside the shell. Boards and batteries are much smaller than the case. With modern phones this is different, especially if you want to hide the explosives from a sophisticated entity like a state protecting its supply chain. That’s the scenario bunnie is talking about, i.e. how in danger are we from cellphones in our daily life. And in that case the addition of one layer of PETN in the battery of a generic Android cellphone is a plausible attack vector apparently, I am just wondering how effective it would be.
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