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edit: after 20 comments, i'm adding a post description here, since most of the commenters so far appear not to be reading the article:

This is about how surprisingly cheap it is (eg $15,000) to buy a complete production line to be able to manufacture batteries with a layer of nearly-undetectable explosives inside of them, which can be triggered by off-the-shelf devices with only their firmware modified.

screenshot of paragraph from the article saying "The process to build such batteries is well understood and documented. Here is an excerpt from one vendor’s site promising to sell the equipment to build batteries in limited quantities (tens-to-hundreds per batch) for as little as $15,000:" followed by a screenshot of "Flow-chart of Pouch Cell Lab-scale Fabrication" showing a 20 step process

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[-] jdeath@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

but the article is about exploding batteries, no?

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

That's like saying exploding cars when you're really talking about a bomb placed in a car...

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 55 minutes ago

"A bomb going 80 mph on the highway exploded."

Doesn't give the right information.

And if we're being pedantic, when a bomb explodes, so does everything around it. Exploding doesn't require a chemical reaction. It's the act of tearing apart quickly. So yes, the car exploded.

That's in English though. Other languages may be different.

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