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#2Hmm… that's the U.S. Secret Service, not the CIA, and they found lots of interesting stuff except an actual plot to "attack" anything, in NY or elsewhere:
> Officials said they haven’t uncovered a direct plot to disrupt the U.N. General Assembly and note there are no known credible threats to New York City.
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#3There are five versions of this bullshit on the front page. Most comments here:
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#4First they say it is a DoS operation against the cellular network, then that it was used to send encrypted messages (why would you use a cellphone to do that?) to criminal groups, which is it? Or, you know, it could have simply been a bot farm.
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#5Hmm… that's the U.S. Secret Service, not the CIA, and they found lots of interesting stuff except an actual plot to "attack" anything, in NY or elsewhere: > Officials said they haven’t uncovered a direct plot to disrupt the U.N. General Assembly and note there are no known credible threats to New York City.
Yeah I'm not sure why the title of the link v the article is different.
> Officials also warned of the havoc the network could have caused if left intact. McCool compared the potential impact to the cellular blackouts that followed the Sept. 11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing, when networks collapsed under strain
It's more of a warning of potential attack, there is no real 'hobby' use for this kind of infrastructure. I wonder if it the 'cell tower' service isn't also used for higher priority coms though. I'd like to know more of the hardware that was used here.
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#6What does the CIA have to do with this story?
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#7I'll admit that I got distracted by lead agent's super rad name. I'd like to think someone at the Secret Service said "we need to bring in McCool" as soon as they discovered the potential threat.
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#9Hmm… that's the U.S. Secret Service, not the CIA, and they found lots of interesting stuff except an actual plot to "attack" anything, in NY or elsewhere: > Officials said they haven’t uncovered a direct plot to disrupt the U.N. General Assembly and note there are no known credible threats to New York City.
Yeah I'm not sure why the title of the link v the article is different. > Officials also warned of the havoc the network could have caused if left intact. McCool compared the potential impact to the cellular blackouts that followed the Sept. 11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing, when networks collapsed under strain It's more of a warning of potential attack, there is no real 'hobby' use for this kind of infrast…
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