Does this mean people who aren't confident in the US government should do the 
opposite - enthusiastically accept business from shady customers who want to be 
near windows?

Remember, they could be foreign actors, or they could be our own government...


On 23 September 2025 18:46:24 CEST, Mel Beckman via NANOG 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>The U.S. Secret Service announced today that it dismantled a network of 
>electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were 
>used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards 
>senior U.S. government officials, which represented an imminent threat to the 
>agency’s protective operations.
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>The SS say they discovered more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 
>SIM cards across multiple sites, and while the photo they provide shows gear 
>set up in what looks like an apartment, it could be that interlopers have 
>infiltrated actual Internet colo facilities.
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>As a colo operator, I’ve turned away more than a few sketchy potential 
>customers due to their flakey stories requesting rooftop or window antenna 
>locations. Be on the lookout.
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>https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-secret-service-dismantles-imminent-telecommunications-threat-new-york#:~:text=NEW%20YORK%20–%20The%20U.S.%20Secret,SIM%20cards%20across%20multiple%20sites.<https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-secret-service-dismantles-imminent-telecommunications-threat-new-york#:~:text=NEW%2520YORK%2520%E2%80%93%2520The%2520U.S.%2520Secret,SIM%2520cards%2520across%2520multiple%2520sites.>
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> -mel beckman
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