Comment by 🚀 stack
Re: "Encrypted, Anonymous, could text the entire nation in 12…"
Agreed, some jerk ruined a nice thing doing something dumb.
Also, 100,000 seems exhaggerated, as usual. The photos show devices capable of maybe a few thousand, very optimistically. And it seems there were at least two different groups with a different tech aesthetic.
These guys with guns are used to inflated 'street value', where an ounce of coke you can get for a thousand or two has a 'street value' of $100,000... Gets a lot more news coverage and promotions.
2025-09-26 · 7 months ago
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👻 darkghost · 2025-09-26 at 18:53:
Now if only they'd find the phone farm that has been sending me TPUSA texts every day for the past 2 weeks. Getting to the point where white lists will be the only way to text me
🐦 wasolili [...] · 2025-09-27 at 06:02:
I wonder if anyone has looked at the uptime for virtual phone services to see if any of them went down when the raid happened.
These guys with guns are used to inflated 'street value', where an ounce of coke you can get for a thousand or two has a 'street value' of $100,000... Gets a lot more news coverage and promotions.
my personal favorite is when they claim that the seized cocaine was very pure, so it simply must have been bought close to the source, so the cartel must be very closely involved. scary, scary, hide your children!
when all it really means is someone took a few hours to wash their coke. of course, if that's discovered, the story pivots to "and the dealer was mixing acetone with the cocaine!" because the media and general public are both scared and confused by solvents.
👻 darkghost · 2025-09-27 at 10:26:
Oh no! Acetone sounds like one of those *chemicals* Gwyneth Paltrow warned me about!
🚀 stack [OP] · 2025-09-27 at 12:26:
That's how you make crack babies!
Original Post
Encrypted, Anonymous, could text the entire nation in 12 minutes. — I just saw a newsclip about the Secret Service taking down an apartment full of servers and telecom gear near the UN bulding, apparently designed to target cell phones of public officials. I don't know what that was, but it looked like a high-end amateur server room for a game, maybe. The punchline: Secret Service spokesman (maybe even the head, I don't know), said, nodding meaningfully: "Encrypted, anonymous... It could text...