Mel, https://youtu.be/BlAu6X0piHQ?si=yVzGjUWrtTG-lgEQ Good thing only the Escalators were affected! 🤣 L****** 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...
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
On 23 September 2025 18:46:24 CEST, Mel Beckman via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote: 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-di... .>
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