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That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus (cybersect.substack.com)
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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

I thought it was more of a denial of service attack by flooding nearby towers with SIM registration requests causing the infrastructure not to be able to handle other calls, or something along those lines.