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If the objective is to knock out cell towers, just jam them. It's clearly a SIM farm for middle-man communications. It just happened to be close to where the UN
by bArray 1y ago
If the objective is to knock out cell towers, just jam them. It's clearly a SIM farm for middle-man communications. It just happened to be close to where the UN were.
- cenamus 1y agoClose being 35km.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoI think it's 35 miles (X 1.6).
- boringg 1y agoSo anywhere in NYC but it must be targeting the UN /s. Also funny was that it was considered espionage at first ... but they found lots of drugs on site -- clearly not espionage.
- jandrese 1y agoThey found 50g of cocaine, which is more than a personal (not Scarface) use amount of cocaine, but more on the scale of a single dealer. Like the guy running the sim farm was also selling coke on the side.
- marcosdumay 1y agoAlso "most of them" within 35 miles (~50 km).
- nelox 1y agoThe World Trade Center is/was closer to UNHQ ;) Edit:ascii emoji fail
- lovich 1y agoIt's super weird how unusual activity done by humans is correlated with dense human population centers. I cannot conceive of a reason why that would occur https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/
- oofbey 1y agoAlso hard to imagine how this could be used for espionage. Listening in on cell traffic requires defeating security measures in the protocol. Generally something like a 0 day. This might require a single SIM card, but probably not lots of unless there’s something very unusual about the vulnerability that requires lots of valid seeming actors on the network. Plausible I suppose. But “SMS spam” is a vastly more likely explanation than a security hole that can’t be brute forced on the radio.