It is October. What happened?
Wild story from about two weeks ago finally got an update, and it is wilder:
The discovery of SIM farms that threatened cellular networks in New York City is only the tip of a massive nationwide network run by the Chinese Communist government that poses an immediate threat to critical American infrastructure and has led to terrorist acts including hoax SWAT raids at the homes of national leaders, Blaze News has learned.
Sources in the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. intelligence community said these SIM card networks were operating in the United States as early as 2004.
Twenty years? And used to launch Swatting attacks on government officials? This is a total act of war. But what is truly wild is if not for a SWAT hoax on a Secret Service higher up, the Secret Service never goes hunting for the fake network in the first place. It is never found. In typically enterprising ChiCom fashion, the network was evidently being rented out to fraudsters and all manner of bad actors who signed up to use it.
What no one seems to be saying out loud (yet) is that this network — and who knows how many others in the US — was built for a much larger purpose than scams and hoaxes. Spoofing at this scale only makes sense if you intend to take legit networks down, either by hacking or EMP attacks or drone swarms or who knows what. Then you could capture or cripple (or both) first responder comms in real time. The feds are said to be feverishly reverse engineering this equipment. Let’s hope so.
Lede of the week, vote fraud edition:
Forget Prime perks, a woman in Maine says her latest Amazon order came with a surprise she didn’t add to her cart: 250 blank election ballots.
The Newburgh woman, who asked not to be identified, said she ordered coffee, rice and paper plates from the virtual shopping giant, but when she opened her package this week, she found hundreds of blank state ballots for the upcoming elections next month, state officials confirmed to ABC News.
Not clear why but reports have not ID’d who delivered the package. Dollars to donuts it was USPS.
Drip, drip.
Quality thread on how 1970s violent radicals wormed their way into American institutions.
Larry Ellison rules the world? And it is still not enough?
Uh, 69,000 books on a flash drive for $50 seems like a good deal.
Dave trying to go out on top. Good effort.
Kinda wild they are still doing this.