Re: U.S. Secret Service shuts down NYC cellular disruption network

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Mel,

https://youtu.be/BlAu6X0piHQ?si=yVzGjUWrtTG-lgEQ

Good thing only the Escalators were affected!
🤣


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On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 04:42 nanog--- via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
wrote:

> Does this mean people who aren't confident in the US government should do
> the opposite - enthusiastically accept business from shady customers who
> want to be near windows?
>
> Remember, they could be foreign actors, or they could be our own
> government...
>
>
> On 23 September 2025 18:46:24 CEST, Mel Beckman via NANOG <
> nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> > The U.S. Secret Service announced today that it dismantled a network of
> electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were
> used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed
> towards senior U.S. government officials, which represented an imminent
> threat to the agency’s protective operations.
> > The SS say they discovered more than 300 co-located SIM servers and
> 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites, and while the photo they provide
> shows gear set up in what looks like an apartment, it could be that
> interlopers have infiltrated actual Internet colo facilities.
> > As a colo operator, I’ve turned away more than a few sketchy potential
> customers due to their flakey stories requesting rooftop or window antenna
> locations. Be on the lookout.
> >
> https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-secret-service-dismantles-imminent-telecommunications-threat-new-york#:~:text=NEW%20YORK%20–%20The%20U.S.%20Secret,SIM%20cards%20across%20multiple%20sites
> <https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-secret-service-dismantles-imminent-telecommunications-threat-new-york#:~:text=NEW%20YORK%20%E2%80%93%20The%20U.S.%20Secret,SIM%20cards%20across%20multiple%20sites>
> .<
> https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-secret-service-dismantles-imminent-telecommunications-threat-new-york#:~:text=NEW%2520YORK%2520%E2%80%93%2520The%2520U.S.%2520Secret,SIM%2520cards%2520across%2520multiple%2520sites
> .>
> > -mel beckman
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