The Secret Service says it has uncovered what it’s calling “a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York Tri-state area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.”

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    6 days ago

    Calling it now: Trump uses this as an excuse to deploy the national guard to NYC and potentially start arresting people without evidence, claiming some kind of grand conspiracy against him.

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      5 days ago

      Best read the article before trashing it:

      suspect they stumbled into some mob-connected scam ring or textbot farm, and are over-hyping this for dramatic effect. … While this all sounds scary, it seems extremely unlikely that this collection of 100,000 SIM cards in use over this broad of an area [35 miles] could have ever meaningfully impacted cellular communications in New York City, which sees between nine and twelve million cellular users every day.