Would be nice if all militant preppers get rid of their electronic devices like this
At least one extremist echo chamber fewer.
Don’t forget to check the tin foil hats too!
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.
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.
protip: if you’re not connected to a terrorist group targeting israel, you’ve got nothing to worry about
We read on the news ‘Hezbollah pagers’ and assume that this was a targeted attack. But are we sure? What does it even mean? Who and how got those devices?
It’s interesting who we call terrorists and who we don’t. If an Arab nation or organization had done this it would have been called a terrorist attack. Israel does it and people defend it.
Terrorist is a meaningless scare word for “people we don’t like”.