That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
6 hours ago
- #Secret Service
- #SIM Farms
- #Media Propaganda
- Secret Service claims to have foiled a national security threat, but the story is bogus.
- The discovered operation was a normal criminal SIM farm used for spam and masking SMS origins.
- Major news organizations like NYTimes repeated Secret Service claims without questioning.
- Anonymous sources and quoted 'experts' like James A. Lewis and Anthony Ferrante are used to propagate government propaganda.
- The technical setup involves SIM boxes with multiple baseband radios and SIM cards, not actual phones.
- SIM farms can crash cell towers due to SMS overload, but this is a criminal, not national security, issue.
- Secret Service exaggerates the threat, citing proximity to the UN and calling it 'never before seen'.
- The operation could be managed by a single person with around $1 million, not requiring state-level resources.
- NYTimes and quoted experts misrepresent the technical and criminal nature of SIM farms.