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Do my phone and watch have explosives embedded in them? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it would be lethal except in the rarest of circumstances.

I'm pretty sure I've heard of at least two deaths from exploding smartphone batteries. Here's a source for one of them. I'm fairly sure I remember hearing of another where the victim had the phone in their breast pocket, but I'm not finding sources for that one now.

And those were just from faulty devices, not from specifically sabotaged/rigged devices.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, exactly. Very rare.