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Hard to see how 100,000 SIMs are needed to make a few anonymous threats.

• dmix 1y ago
  Yeah I'm skeptical about the political threat angle being directly connected to this set up. The press release was vague about the connection for a reason.
• 9cb14c1ec0 1y ago
  It's a remote phone number as a service system, and some customer of the service used it to make anonymous threats. On the whole, it's a good thing this outfit got shut down, as one of the primary customers of such services are large scale social media bot farms.
  • immibis 1y ago
    But none of that is illegal. The government, and especially the secret service, has no business shutting it down. This is the equivalent of them shutting down a Tor exit relay and then writing an article about how they shut down a Tor exit relay used for crime, complete with pictures of server racks, servers, switches and cables to show how sophisticated the operation is