They going to tear open the battery while they are at it? It’s not like there’s going to be a small lump labeled “RDX” with wires sticking out of it.
While they’re at it, why not incorporate the explosive into the body of the device? Has no one else seen Up in Smoke?
I suspect that’s not far off from what Israel did, from my understanding they modified a device’s at a production level, it sounds like they essentially redesigned the pager.
It will be interesting to see how they did it with the radios.
I feel like a broken record reminding people that the TAO (Tailored Access Operations, now Computer Network Operations), part of the NSA, has been doing this for 20 years. Except they implant spyware instead of explosives. Probably.
This predates the NSA, but they blew up a Russian pipeline with modified software.
You could get a new battery from a known good source (or light a couple on fire to make sure they’re not explosive). It should be relatively easy to check the rest of the components for anything near a dangerous amount of explosive, and the body can be replaced with a custom one and/or subjected to the fire test.
I believe it’s ICOM, not Baofeng.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-820735
What are the ICOM IC-V82 radios exploding in Lebanon?
On that note, one review on eham.net from twelve years back for this radio is amusing:
https://www.eham.net/reviews/view-product?id=5046
Watch out for fake v82’s! Only buy from authorized retailers or someone who did.
I imagine being at war with Israel will induce paranoia from here out.
I don’t know why you think this will be an isolated event, a civilian you probably don’t have anything to worry about in the same way you don’t need to worry about getting poisoned or shot but this is now an attack method governments will take advantage of.
would RDX increase or decrease baofeng interference? only one way to find out