FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers' IDs

Re:FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Ge... by simulator5g on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:36PM (#48471108)

This is a hilarious take

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Re:FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Ge... by Tangurena2 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:56AM (#48475607)

The latest Miasma/Shai-Hulud worm will not run if your development system has KOI8-R (Russian) as the primary language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8-R

> Kill switch, as always with APT28 malware, is setting the host language to ru_RU.KOI8-R (LANG environment variable). That disables the spread mechanism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460507

Note: KOI8-U is Ukrainian and would still trigger the worm/trojan/malware.

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Re:FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Ge... by simulator5g on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @10:36AM (#48476941)

So? If I were a US based malware dev that’s what I’d do to avoid detection…

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