Robert Graham counterpoint: "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus⸻It's just normal crime"
(cybersect.substack.com)
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Good to know. Thanks for sharing this. The story didn't make sense before.
Side note- one of my hopes when Trump won in 2016 was that he would quickly disable the phone spam networks. It's just insulting that robots are allowed to hijack our attention when it could be easily solved.
We do need to fix the robo calls.
Don’t forget the ‘Tech Support’ call centers.
Totally. But it makes sense that dismantling child trafficking and pedo networks takes priority. Back then I was still wet behind the ears on this stuff.
But whenever he gets around to it, even democrats and libertarians will toss laurel wreaths in his direction.
An interesting counterpoint I found. This person is suggesting that the SS did a cell scan of 35mi radius from the UN building for potential threats and found a SIM farm that could be crime or could be legit VOIP to mobile gateway and then sensationalized it so that the media would repeat it endlessly. But why?
Probably to tell the UN or its disrupters not to try anything when Trump is there.
But they did. They stopped his escalator, his teleprompter and turned down the volume when Trump spoke compared to other speakers
Nasty
Whoever stopped the UN escalator the second DJT and Melania walked onto it should be charged with creating a risk to POTUS and FLOTUS. Not only could they have stumbled/fallen and gotten hurt, but a bad guy could have tried some kind of attack while they were on the ground or distracted there. This better be investigated by GOOD people at Secret Service, IMO.
Could be to make a wider point about disabling the comms network, hard to say. But it does look like it's a message, at least to me.
They knew about it for a few months (likely monitoring it for more info) and decided to yank it the day before the UNGA, publishing the story the day of the meeting. It may be a message of sorts given the timing. "We see you." It could have been normal crime but it also could have been state sponsored. You set up the sim farm, let criminals use it and if the state entity needs anything they just check backdoors or utilize the botnet like capability when they need to for an op. The criminals who operate it don't need to know who their benefactors are. If it gets found by local authorities, it's just regular local criminals and not say, China or Iran, etc.
You know. It being ‘Normal Crime’ doesn’t make it better. Nor does it not mean it’s not espionage related. Anything that could disrupt communications over a wide area even if it’s technically ‘legal’, and or used in ‘normal scam crime’ , should be a Security Concern. As it could be used by anyone who knows it’s there. Regardless of who set it up and what their intentions were originally.
All it really means is we’ve gotten far too used to shit like it being normal. That it barely even registers as moderately concerning.