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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2025
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This has been a constant stream of terrible reporting on this story. It's shocking. I guarantee the geriatric fuck that wrote this article didn't bother to ask a single nerd what they think. He actually called it stealthy. ITS A FUCKING CELL SIGNAL. they triangulate that shit for fun. They actually keep saying this could DDOS cell towers - do they think NYC has low pop density? that city creates more organic traffic from a baseball game than these devices could pump out, and they're so close to eachother they'd interfere with themselves WAY before they started to affect everyone else's access to that cell tower.
The reporting on this has been absolute shit. There's an endless stream of these types of cell services out there, they're definitely shady, this one got caught up facilitating prank calls to members of congress and they rightfully got raided. But the rest reeks of the capt crunch whistling into a phone to set off a nuke bullshit
Yeah a couple thousand RRC connected UEs will “ddos” a single cell, you’ll get congestion and eventually hit license limits.
But that’s a single cell, even the same cell tower will likely work fine on another sector lol this isn’t jamming
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