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points by pnt12 18 hours ago | 0 comments
In a war scenario, Russia would could destroy Ukranian phones for example.

For the lulz.

[–] Geezus_42 17 hours ago
Wouldn't it be easier to just takedown the carrier they've already exploited?
[–] kirth_gersen 16 hours ago
why not do both?
[–] int0x29 13 hours ago
Because keeping the phones down longer than 5 minutes requires the carriers to still be up and retransmitting un-acked SMS messages