[ExI] SIM farm attack prep?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> The news agency offered this photo, which was puzzling why they would have that business in the same room with that enormous tray of nigiri.

You need a higher-res version to see that they are indeed electronics.
https://www.gadgetreview.com/wp-content/uploads/The-U.S.-Secret-Service-1200x801.jpg
for example.

> So hipsters, they found this SIM farm which the Secret Service claims could have been used to cripple the 911 network and the cell phone communications by massive simultaneous attack and so forth.  If so this is preparation for electronic warfare.  Do have that about right?

Yeah.  As I understand it, basically a denial-of-service attack,
overloading the networks.  Mostly pointless by itself; the point would
be to do that in conjunction with some other bad stuff - possibly
multiple bad things at once, given the effort it would take to jam the
network and that multiple simultaneous acts could benefit.

> Where can I get the real story, with tech deetz and all that?

https://www.gadgetreview.com/secret-service-seizes-sim-farm-that-could-cripple-nyc-cell-service
is where I got that higher-res photo from, and it seems to have some
details.