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Comment by romperstomper | Hacker News Reader

An interesting choosing of words - "It's just normal criminal enterprise for sending SMS spam and anonymous messages." It doesn't look anyway "normal" as for me. I feel that this guy just says me "move along, nothing to see here" and resembles some South Park absurdity tbh. As for me it looks quite advanced (though I'm not an expert here) for just sending spam messages.

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You admit to not knowing what tech these criminals have, and then on the basis of that you conclude "it doesn't look normal to me"..

It's like landing in Saudi Arabia and saying, "All the women here wear head covering, that doesn't look normal to me"...

Meanwhile on the flipside the authorities hype it up to be some state-sponsored threat, as if to say "Look citizen, your very competent government is keeping you safe! Trust us!"

Well.. my judgment was based on the facts from the article, which are mostly about the amount and sophistication of equipment. I also read more facts from this link posted there as a reference https://apnews.com/article/unga-threat-telecom-service-sim-9... - they mention 300 SIM servers and 100K SIM cards which is quite impressive as for me. Also, for some reasons all of this is clustered around the UN facilities (in 35 miles radius). Even if all of this is related to spam only activities this is quite a large investment as for me and that's why I'm not really convinced this is just some "normal" thing to see.

I think $1 million in basically abandoned, anonymized equipment is clearly not normal.

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