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Secret Service Dubiously Claims, Without Evidence, To Have Uncovered ‘Hidden Telecom Network’ That Could Have Crippled NYC, UN (www.techdirt.com)

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The Secret Service says it has uncovered what it’s calling “a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York Tri-state area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.”

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[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago

Secret Service has some other acts of service in their purview that would make them heroes, maybe focus on those.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 6 points 6 hours ago

Calling it now: Trump uses this as an excuse to deploy the national guard to NYC and potentially start arresting people without evidence, claiming some kind of grand conspiracy against him.

[–] blave@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Thank goodness they found out who sabotaged the escalator when Trump got on it!

[–] salty_chief@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

“Without evidence”. Rooms filled with evidence on video and pictures. 🤦🏻

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 4 points 3 hours ago

Best read the article before trashing it:

suspect they stumbled into some mob-connected scam ring or textbot farm, and are over-hyping this for dramatic effect. ... While this all sounds scary, it seems extremely unlikely that this collection of 100,000 SIM cards in use over this broad of an area [35 miles] could have ever meaningfully impacted cellular communications in New York City, which sees between nine and twelve million cellular users every day.