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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Exploding pagers
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:41:23 GMT
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On a sunny day (Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:37:14 +0100) it happened John R Walliker
<jrwalliker@gmail.com> wrote in <vcj8na$1051k$1@dont-email.me>:

>On 20/09/2024 06:15, Bill Sloman wrote:
>> On 20/09/2024 7:07 am, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:26:23 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:48:01 -0400, bitrex wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/18/2024 4:01 PM, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
>>>>>> Am 18.09.24 um 20:08 schrieb john larkin:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:30:23 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>>>>>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>>>> Thank god one of them didn't go off in an airliner with Europeans on 
>>>> board
>>>> at the time. That could so easily have happened. Hopefully the airlines'
>>>> explosive sniffers would have detected them. If they cannot, they'll 
>>>> have
>>>> to do something *quick* to improve security measures to ensure it can't
>>>> happen going forward.
>>>
>>> It was probably detonated by some special message, and wouldn't have
>>> worked on a plane.
>> 
>> Planes are Faraday cages. These days they do use WiFi inside the 
>> aircraft to give people access to the Web, but pagers rely on older 
>> technology.
>
>Not really. They have windows.  The doors are not electrically connected
>to the fuselage all the way round so they act as slot antennas.
>Mobile phones work fine inside planes.

Indeed!