Russian General Killed After 4G Towers Needed For Secure Comms Shelled

Killed by an intercepted Sim card. 

While you may deny comms to your enemy if you destroy cell towers, in the modern era, you are probably also denying them to yourself. JL 

Matthew Chapman reports in The Raw Story:

Following the combat death of Russian General Vitaly Gerasimov near Kharkiv, Bellingcat, reported that Russian forces relaying news to their superiors were forced to use an unsecure phone line with a local sim card that was intercepted. Russian forces had to use the insecure line because Era — the secure cryptophone system implemented last year by the Russian Ministry of Defense which is supposedly guaranteed to work "in all conditions" — is down (because) Russian forces destroyed all 3G and 4G cell towers required for the system to establish a connection. "The idiots tried to use Era cryptophones after destroying 3G/4G cell towers needed to communicate."

Following reports of the combat death of Russian General-major Vitaly Gerasimov near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Christo Grozev, the executive director of investigative journalism and intelligence group Bellingcat, reported that Russian forces relaying the news back to their superiors were forced to use an unsecure phone line with a local sim card — that was promptly intercepted.

According to Grozev, Russian forces had no choice but to use the insecure line because Era — the highly secure cryptophone system implemented last year by the Russian Ministry of Defense which is supposedly guaranteed to work "in all conditions" — is down. And the reason the system is down is that Russian forces on the front destroyed all of the nearby 3G and 4G cell towers required for the system to establish a connection.

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The idiots tried to use the Era cryptophones in Kharkiv, after destroying many 3g cell towers and also replacing others with stingrays. Era needs 3g/4g to communicate. The Russian army is equipped with secure phones that can't work in areas where the Russian army operates.

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In closing, here's the origin of the greatest military opsec failure of all time. First, Putin signed the so-called

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law, prohibiting soldiers from posting on social media. Then he told the military to not use foreign phones as they are "insecure". The rest is history.