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15 hours agoSurprised you responded, I’ll respond back later when I get home so I can share the level of detail it is I am talking about.
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Thank you for reminding me, edited in the citations. Back to work.
Oh please educate me troll. I am waiting.
The original is down now or being flooded:
https://www.apollopagers.com/support/al-a25-gold-pc-programming-manual/
The newer gapollo ALA25v6 by Apollo is in Farsi and I am having trouble translating from pdf, but I found an older one for the ala25v4 in English here:
Here’s your detailed tech possible explanation with citations:
Pagers known used in the attack were Apollo Gold AP-700, AP-900 and AP-924, which all use the same ALA25 programmable logic chip.
If you google the Gold Apollo AL-A25 Programming Manual and look for battery gauge inputs, you can see it is possible to program the voltage ranges.
By setting the battery gauge level-high to an invalid selection that is also greater than the low level it creates a bridge between the anode and cathode, resulting in thermal runaway which will in fact cause the battery to overload and explode due to the increased temperatures.
We’ve done this using similar batteries on battery backed write cache controllers sitting in a nema-3 enclosure just to see what the tolerances are.
Edit Citations:
https://www.mitsubishicritical.com/resources/blog/thermal-runaway/
https://www.apollopagers.com/support/al-a25-gold-pc-programming-manual/
Programmable chip responsible:
GAPOLLO AL-A25_6 RA5794.1 chip = AP-900 and AR-924 models
Yeah, news still coming in, hard to make sense of it all. I am now seeing models in the attack as being: Apollo Gold AP-700, AP-900 and AR-924.
Ap-900 Battery electrical specs: 10-30VDC or 8-18VAC Input 3-40VDC/25VAC Standby <10mA Active <100mA Tolerance -10’C ~ +50’C
Ah. So the G_Apollo AL-A25 logic chip used in these models is programmable and unlocked by default lol.
Programmable chip responsible:
GAPOLLO AL-A25_6 RA5794.1 chip = AP-900 and AR-924 models
Reading a bit more into it, seems all of them were
MotorolaApollo 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.
Being in IT and having worked on asics, breadboard design, lsf, dgx and others for a storage chip design company, it’s not exactly rocket science to overload a small battery so much it heats up above 140’'F/60’C that it combusts.
Here’s the initial report:
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/lebanon-news/796406/understanding-the-pager-and-how-it-can-explode/en
This is more simple than that. They’re sending a malicious payload to the target numbers which causes the pager to heat up the battery and explode. Nothing manufacturing related.
Here’s a video of one of them exploding.
https://youtu.be/h4McyQ8YAQI?si=GbSXpCzqH-9GKAPa
One of the deaths I read was due to ammunition in their pocket and another due to them crashing their car after it exploded. Seems 8 dead, almost 3,000 injured from Lebanon to Syria and one in Qatar.
Soon to be: P.rison Ditty.
14·3 days agoJonny 5: I’m alive dammit!
Creed’s band members suddenly twitch…
Simple fix: Re hire all the enforcement officers for the various Departments that both Democrat and Republican Presidents have fired since President Bill Clinton. This is a bipartisan issue, literally.
Feet: 16’ x 32’ w/ a 4’ shallow end and an 8’ deep end filled with fresh water at an exact temperature of 39.2’F.
Metric: 4.9m x 9.7m w/ a 1.2m shallow end and a 2.4m deep end filled with fresh water at an exact temperature of 4’C.
Because we are discussing metric tons of water where 264.17 US gallons = 1 metric ton of fresh water @ 4’C
189.27 metric tons of water, so yes, rounded up, 190 tons.
Or roughly 2.5 average swimming pools and for those ex-redditors out there: 1.6 million bananas
I wish him luck, but I doubt they’ll get the help they need.
Fucking VA wouldn’t acknowledge my Dad’s Vietnam War created tinnitus or PTSD for 45 years.
So wait, you come storming in trolling fake bs fake. Then I come back with citations that I sincerely forgot, you then respond with zero evidence to the contrary to “educate me” and go out of your way to just shut down, cross your arms and pout?
Yeah. really, sincerely, you have zero ethics.