I’ve seen several people posting on social media that there seems to have been a decrease in txt message spam this week.
I wonder why?
Well, “That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus” by Robert Graham may explain that.
He looks at the government’s announcement of having a found a “SIM farm” “within 35 miles” of the United Nations building in New York City which was “possibly run by nation-state actors”. Announcing the operation, the Secret Service “compared the potential impact to the cellular blackouts that followed the September 11 attacks”.
This is almost certainly just the Secret Service blowing smoke.
The most likely explanations for such an installation are criminal, but they’re not terrorist.
Think of a system that can send 100,000 txt messages in a second, for example, spamming out romance scams and phony bank notifications 24×7.
That’s what a system like this is most likely to have been used for, not some cellular-based cyber-9/11 which is what they want you to think it’s for.
Because a cellular-based cyber-9/11 is scary in a way that just another spammer is not.
It gets them adoring press, and keeps the citizens frightened and grateful for the government’s protection.
It is, as they say, a psyop.
Propaganda.
Or, as we used to say: lies.
Don’t fall for it.
Though if you’ve also noticed a dropoff in how many annoying spam txt messages you get each day, that’s not nothing and it does make the world a better place.
You can probably thank the Secret Service for that.
