Software Defined Tubers ➡️ Saintcon

Ironic he uses a Fight Club reference while also blocking people who engage in any meaningful discussion that doesn’t directly align with his own views.

Unfortunate that this grifter has so many followers.

Not even the fastest we can go but we’re zooming past cars on 66 and 267. Trains are cool and good.

That’s true. Misunderstood my bad. Either way I think there’s still intelligence to gather because we’re still missing key details.

I highly recommend you read Spy in Moscow Station.

So instead of hearing me out and giving my two sense of the situation I get dismissed and threatened with « do you want to be the one that blows out the case » because of alleged « bombastic claims »

Wanna make it clear, aside from a snarky comment I made my intention of this was not to step on toes but to provide context and a better understanding but clearly my experience with this agency isn’t enough.

Bookmarking this tweet specifically to remember this for a tattoo idea. That goes so fucking hard.

My ex gave me Covid on our vacation to Vegas because he wouldn’t mask or test himself.

My team, our partners, and others hear hoof steps and we believe this time it’s a zebra and not the horse.

I wanna make something clear: I have strong opinions on ANY LE agency, local, state, or federal. I’m never one to generally side with them and I get the skepticism. Additionally, i would normally would never assume the hoovesteps are zebras but it’s the only way the math works in this.

Scenario 2 continued - the scale allows them to cast a much wider net guaranteeing that they’ll be able to execute what ever attack they plan while also providing noise to make it harder to detect.

Scenario 2 « the zebra » - there are targets within the UN that these threat actors are aware of their travels and lodging for the duration of this event and are using these arrays to perform some sort of attack on these targets.

There’s two possible scenarios that we’re aware of as we speak: scenario 1 « the horse » - this is an income stream for a threat actor and that information was coincidental to a related investigation.

We know that even 10,000 or 100,000 cell phones hitting a handful of towers in the most populated metro in the US would probably cause a minor inconvenience at worse and nothing at best.

If these are nation-state actors then they’re operating with some intel in hand.

Lets oversimplify this for a second and think about the information we know that’s objective:

- thousands of SIM cards attached to hundreds of pieces of telco equipment were seized.

- located in the NYC metro within a 35 mile radius of lower manhattan.

- relation to nation state actors

In fact on multiple occasions over the past two decades congress has raised alarms over the risk of attacks especially around SS7 attacks because we still to this day do not have any mitigations for this. While we have shut down our 2G and 3G networks they’re still used for roaming.

For someone with the alleged experience you have you seem to be going around in circles a lot. There’s quite a lot that can be done with a setup like this beyond botting and scam/spam. UK government banned these on two separate occasions because of the heightened risk.

Do you have a TS/SCI and a SCIF nearby?

Writing for the 80s equivalent of hacker substack does not automatically make you right when you’re arguing with a guy who actually had a background in this case.

Guess being dunked on by a writer for the 2600 because I have a background in something is my cue to just log off.

Sorry for bothering even trying to participate.

I get the skepticism of the current admin and all the government offices related to it, I really do, but it’s frustrating having to say « they’re actually right » only to be dunked on by the vapid cynicism of the community when this is literally my job

My team has been monitoring this along with partner teams both in and out of the US Government. The consensus is that the press release is credible and that there was a high threat risk but that’s where our info ends. It’s frustrating to us because this is our job and even we’re stumped.

*sighs* no that’s not what I’m stating. Background: hi I’m Spud, I have nearly a decade in cyber with extensive experience doing cyber threat intelligence and incident response including on behalf of USSS, CISA and DoJ. While I’ve never worked in a LEO capacity my work has been very adjacent.

Im following this as part of my job and have worked with this agency in the past. While the presser comes off as bombastic and hyperbolic the partners have worked with have corroborated most of their claims. We don’t have a ton of information either but their claims aren’t far off the mark.

I’m actually going feral as we speak. I will remove jaws and kneecaps if this comes near my network.

Butlarian Jihad when?

Everyone’s so quick to quit twitter but I don’t think people realize how much fun it is to annoy fascists.

Fucking ghouls. History will not be kind to these people.

Even if they had other health problems they sure as shit aren’t being helped by the fucking famine.

I hate this timeline.

It’s also shown that just a marginal increase in payroll taxes to cover national healthcare would actually remove the burden of care on employers and save millions (per employer).