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Improvised Explosive Cell Phone – Up Close

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Jacob Appelbaum, a geek who is currently trekking in Iraq, posted this image of a roadside IED. The ringer is attached to the explosive trigger and the word on the street is that a GSM jammer would shut these things down pretty easily. We talked about this a few months ago, but this is an interesting close-up shot of one in the field.

https://gizmodo.com/riyadh-bombers-used-cellphones-to-detonate-6458

IED in Iraq [It’s complicated via BoingBoing]

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