• steventhedev@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Best I can get is figuring out a way to reuse some pins on the uc to isolate two or three caps to use as voltage pumps and then dump the whole thing at once into the battery.

    I somehow suspect Electroboom is going to get a lot of new viewers in the next few days

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      2 months ago

      Reading a bit more into it, seems all of them were Motorola Apollo Gold pagers (I stand corrected), so they had to have exploited the li-on charging pins to either create a loop causing thermal runaway, or spam different voltage discharging signals via their payload. Regardless, it’s a truly impressive exploit.