[ExI] SIM farm attack prep?

[BillK]

On Sat, 27 Sept 2025 at 19:35, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Adrian or any other hipsters on this topic: I read news stories last week about a SIM farm that was discovered and disabled in New York.  Mainstream news stories often get stuff so wrong it is practically useless, but they claim the Secret Service found multiple sites filled with servers and cell phones and active SIM cards and such as that.
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> 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?  Where can I get the real story, with tech deetz and all that?
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> spike
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I found a couple of articles that say the Secret Service is
exaggerating and that this is normal criminal activity, expected to be
found in other cities as well. (If they bother to look).
<https://www.wired.com/story/sim-farm-new-york-threatened-us-infrastructure-feds-say/>
<https://cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secret-service-sim-farm-story>
But these days, who knows what the true story is?

BillK