Comment on Secret Service agents dismantle network that could shut down New York cellphone system
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 days agoMost people know the Secret Service for their job of protecting the president, but they actually have a number of different jobs to do beyond that. Protecting civil infrastructure being one of them.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Why wouldn’t the local police discover local criminal activity but a washington secret police would ?
Trump’s Secret Police probably put the jammers or whatever they were, just to claim to have found them and therefore justify their ability to enter places like this and spy and infiltrate households, organizations, factories and everywhere else that Dear Leader pleases.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The NYPD beat cops aren’t really trained to look for or discover cyber security threats. Additionally, the secret service agents that discovered these were not from Washington but from the local NYC field office, and it was most likely due to heightened security measures surrounding the UNGA visit specifically.
They weren’t jammers either, they were just sim farms, commonly used for spam calling and other general mid-level cybercrime like that.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
First the NYPD is a sophisticated military and intelligence organization more than capable and engaged in the daily labour of neutralizing humans on the daily. Just because they also have lots of fat ticket maids doesn’t mean they’re not full of competent vicious persons that will stop at nothing to imagine crimes and find them.
As for the compromised secret police, their motives are quite similar but on top of that they have an even more corrupt leadership let loose on mongering fear and paranoia for its own prestige and establishing causes for intervention by their benefactor, the Trump administration.
Absolutely nothing, no information at all coming from these organizations can be assumed to be true or straight, even statement is a piece of propaganda craft designed to empower AI driven power and electoral narratives.
“100’000 SIM cards” wow that’s really a big lot of nothing. A SIM card has not transmitter, you literally cannot do anything with it unless it were accepted by the network to begin with.
What they have is basically nothing more than 100’000 invalid login and passwords. And with eSIMs later are they going to claim to have stop a “potentially infinite” cyber attack ?
Their claims shouldn’t be evaluates on their merits but on what manipulation are their lies trying to accomplish. What narrative they are trying to craft.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
All agreed, but the NYPD has a $10 billion budget. They’re far more than beat cops.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The USSS is under the Department of the Treasury. Their main job is rooting out counterfeiting. Serving the President is incidental.