You touch it. You're not actuating any mechanisms.

Man I've been using MacBookPros for so long I forgot how many greebles laptops used to have on the bottom.

If you've ever dealt with home insurance you try very hard to not have to deal with home insurance.

To say your goals are cross-aligned with theirs would be an understatement.

Thankfully functionality isn't usually necessary to get a successful scan, unlike living targets.

The vaping community was basically shorting the cells. I'm not sure how a modern 18650 or prismatic cell would handle that.

I think the author does a good job of showing how commoditized this kind of crime is. There are no special insights here that someone who wanted to do this thing couldn't easily find on their own.

The device is probably 256 of those, or similar, chipsets on a board with integrated SIM slots and connectors for SMA antennas. You'd have a hard time producing something like this cheaper than China.

There's only 64 antennas but 256 SIMs, so there are either 64 separate quad-SIM modems (AFAIK only Mediatek made those, and in 2G only) or it's just one big FPGA, managed by a small CPU and connected to a bunch of RF ICs, like the inverse of a base station.

Or there are 64 modems that can switch between 4 SIM slots.

Better in what way? MobileX may have some properties that are attractive to criminals.

Mobile-X is cheap and is "pay for what you use"

I don't think there's some other seedy reason - Mobile-X is just the least expensive option I know of right now in the US that can be purchased at retail, so that is probably the main reason

More data etc, lower price.

I checked less than 90 days ago, and Mobile-X was cheaper than any other MVNO with retail availability in the US.

Do you have links to services that cost less, per line/sim? I don't think they exist, especially at retail.

I might then be completely wrong.

Common carriers are usually absolved of the malfeasance of their customers.

Probably a lot of places to buy MVNO sim cards from with cash as well.