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Secret Service Dubiously Claims, Without Evidence, To Have Uncovered ‘Hidden Telecom Network’ That Could Have Crippled NYC, UN (www.techdirt.com)

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The Secret Service says it has uncovered what it’s calling “a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York Tri-state area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.”

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 5 points 9 months ago

Best read the article before trashing it:

suspect they stumbled into some mob-connected scam ring or textbot farm, and are over-hyping this for dramatic effect. ... While this all sounds scary, it seems extremely unlikely that this collection of 100,000 SIM cards in use over this broad of an area [35 miles] could have ever meaningfully impacted cellular communications in New York City, which sees between nine and twelve million cellular users every day.