Comment by toss1
5 months ago
>>...early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement.
>>These devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the United Nations General Assembly now underway in New York City. Given the timing, location and potential for significant disruption to New York telecommunications posed by these devices, the agency moved quickly to disrupt this network.
What nation-state actor might want to disrupt a major US city during a meeting of the UN General Assembly?
There is no claim that it had anything to do with the UN General Assembly ('within 35 miles' covers a lot more than the UN General Assembly). They do say senior US officials were targeted.
Umm, that claim is literally a cut-and-paste quote from the US Secret Service announcement (which is why I inserted the ">>" at the beginning of the paragraph to signify the quotation).
So YES, there is a specific claim, and it came directly from the USSS, in the exact article heading this topic. The USSS does not merely toss in observations without a basis in their working threat model (unless they've changed since I worked adjacent to them). It may indeed turn out to be unrelated, but the USSS is publicly stating they are treating it as more than a coincidence.
Likely one that wanted to plausibly deniably create some kind of chaos via proxy actors.
yeah likely someone somewhere who wanted to do something bad via some kind of other group without us knowing
I hope whoever it was thinks twice before they try to do whatever they were trying to do again, if they were trying to do it
Good thing we caught whoever it was