Terrorists Build Wi-Fi Bombs to Dodge Cops’ Cellphone Jammers
20th May 2019
‘Free WiFi’ takes on a very different meaning….
Terrorists have been caught strapping Wi-Fi-activated backup triggers to bombs in Indonesia, police claimed this week.
The explosives were discovered in a raid earlier this month, and included a switching mechanism that enabled them to be detonated using a signal sent via Wi-Fi if the main trigger, which uses a SIM card and waits for a mobile phone message to detonate, was blocked by radio-frequency jammers.
“With that, he can put [the bombs] in some backpacks, and later he would just detonate them from a distance of 1km, for example,” said Brigadier-General Dedi Prasetyo at a press conference, according to The Strait Times. Yes, we know Wi-Fi doesn’t normally have a range of 1km. We’ll get to that in a moment.