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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. Think of them as “A bunch of phones”
The thing is, the importance of this whole event is just being exaggerated, likely to make the Trump admin look good. Like they said these could “take down NYCs cell infrastructure” but they said they only found 100,000 SIM cards total. If every one of those turned on at the same time and tried to overload local infrastructure, it would result in a 1% increase in cell network utilization inside NYC.
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.
All agreed, but the NYPD has a $10 billion budget. They're far more than beat cops.