On Sep 24, 2025, at 9:56 AM, Tom Beecher via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: >> Upon actually reading the article, this looks overblown, typical of the >> current regime. >> >> Having a lot of SIM cards, a lot of phones, having phones in a >> rack-mount form factor, and plugging SIM cards into things that are not >> phones are not illegal. >> >> The fact that a cellphone network could be overloaded by a lot of phones >> doesn't make it illegal to have a lot of phones. Even if it /does/ >> overload the cellphone network, AFAIK it's still not illegal unless that >> was your intention. > > Yes, it's very overblown. > > The reports say these items were found inside of a "35 mile radius" of the > UN. The total population inside that area is roughly 17 million people. > > 100k SIMs is a rounding error relative to the number of cellular network > devices in that area.
Perhaps of interest: https://cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secret-service-sim-farm-story Regards, -drc
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