How a Cartel Built Their Own Cell Phone Network 

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the slander! he better lawyer up ;)

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@@johnladuke6475 Serving lawsuits via window bricks...?

Maybe he's "amigo del cartel".

Next thing we know is that Sam is sued by the LegalEagle

Legal Eagle wont be in danger from the drug cartel. do drug cartels have fans? I hope we don't find out.

AT&T Nextel

Lol?

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This aged fantastically...

@@deebear321 fr

Best comment here

Great work!

Dead Meat vibes

okay @drew gooden

Those were jokes? 🙄

ese compa ya esta muerto, no mas no le han avisado

that is just business as usual.

Maybe a ton of guys are looking for good counsel before a trial

I hear he was peeled all over with a chainsaw when they found the first piece of him.

Nah he will just see them in court in a jiffy...

I know it’s insane

Only commenting because I know this is a top comment

Damn now that you mention it I can totally see the similarities wtf. Wendover is way funnier though

They sound the Sam indeed.

Ohhh! That's interesting! Or Half as!

Yeep.

Absolutely.

I wish Devin could cover 5 plausible conspirac theories that might actually come true in 2021

Because Devin is stoned at 4am

All im imagining is el jarabe tapatio 🤣

next video on LegalEagle: silly me, of course it wouldnt exist!

I know one of those engineers, he went to school with me. They basically told him "hey, we need you to build this infrastructure and we will pay you lots and lots of money, or you can decline and we will kill you and your family. :)". Now he has a lot of money. I would've done the same.

@@CoolAcid Damn

I am sure they were just hired, since cartels are famous for being non-violent, kidnapping and threatening nobody and generally being super kind and never doing anything illegal.

cartels kidnap people left and right wtf u on m8

@@TheJerbol wooooosh

Can kill someone but not the environment

@@tomasveras2175 I mean the less people the better

There are so many memes in Mexico about the Ex president’s stupidity.

The Cartels just siphon the gas they want to sell from existing pipelines. That's sort of eco-friendly I guess....

@@blakexu4943 PEMEX: Shhh.

As another Serbian, I can confirm it still means halcones

literally LOLed 😂

I could see it a mile off and it was still good

Also handling the DNCC’s communications!

how fricking fast did u watch the video

And many governments

True tho.

@@silentone6411 absolutely

even the cartel know solar power is the future..., why destroy the planet even more? even the cartel have some morals. Unlike an American politician

@@ciscobriones5904 Why "even the cartel"? They choose the technologies which are more efficient, productive and reliable to run their business not ways to satisfy all of the different lobby groups filling their pockets.

@@sockaccount8116 literally, a solar-powered system could be set up automatically and would only have to be re-checked if maintenance was needed. Whereas refueling would require multiple and regularly scheduled trips to refuel it.

@@ciscobriones5904 ya they don’t pollute the environment just the human body

@@ciscobriones5904 LOL "morals".

The FBI wants to know your location

Hahaha try Tmobile

At&t is not bad at all but they bit off more then they cud chew with that merger bull

U just dont know how to use the service

Knowing that the service the cartel may have ended hacking after Nextel Mexico was bought by (ahem) AT&T may have ended been TelCel (or Claro, as is known in many other Latin American countries outside of Mexico)... (had until not too long ago like 70% of the wireless market in Mexico and as many monopolies it is not quite well respected for its' "customer service")

Or they hire you and then the cops come so you claim to be kidnapped

This sadly doesn’t just happen to engineers, but to everyday innocent people as well. I know of a smith who was kidnapped to help make makeshift armored cars (think mad max) and was subsequently killed in a raid. Sad situation.

@@leonardoaguado2501 best idea ever lmao

Fr that’s what be happening everyone else Lying

The reality of some poor people here, they have no choice but to serve the narcos to survive :((

@@manthanf1 NASDAQ actually refers to both an exchange and an index. Please consult with Professor Wikipedia before trying to correct me

on the AMEX

@@JPSGShow i thought it was on the VISA

Big Pharma is very profitable!

NASDAQ looks like an among us code

And halcones means halcones.

@@AJ12Gamer hawks

Well, I am afraid you went to the wrong place

wut

@Стефан Радев was it

The wendover guy is a big nerd

I hate that guy 😡

More like Wendover seductions, amirite

? Can u elaborate? Edit: Ok guys thanks I understand now

@@georgepaul341 HAI was made based on the old that Wikipedia list on Wendover productions. they are run by the same guy.

@@georgepaul341 in the section where he says which RU-vidr he hates most, masked by digital inversion, he said Wendover.

Gush I think it might me league eagle

@@georgepaul341 basically an insider fan joke. Wendover and HAI are running by the same group and the same narrator. Usually he will diss the "guy from Wendover" (which is himself) as a joke. Although Wendover narrator's tone was more serious back then, they pretty much shared the same tone now.

Halcón is hawk

@@baltazarresendez3990 stop spreading misinformation. "Halcón" is a falcon, "gavilán" is a hawk.

and the singular form is halcón, not halcone

Nice try Google already told us it's Serbian

thats not true halcones means halcones

same

He did the same thing for the difference between the dmv and dmz

@@KaiWut same

Exactly

@@jownadel1526 exact same thought process

@Rider450 yes but no, if am correct at one point all of Mexico communications were own by one person.

@@mt8956 Mainly 2 cos. Infrastructure is mostly owned by Carlos Slim (Mexico's top billionaire) owner of TELMEX and service is provided by 2 cos: TELMEX and another Mexican who recently sold to AT&T... A new CHEAP service for poor people in rural areas, created some years ago, seemed to have gone nowhere (crushed?).

Some cartels have been caught using kidnapped scientist to develop a new breed of ballistic artillery... Known only as "Engranaje de Metal'

@@900108Chale Mexican gov't in bed with big business.

@Rider450 real talk

You should get in to the drug busines! What could go wrong?

@@darin7553 Yeah, lemme know when it gets started up, I'd love to... uh - a friend would love to take part

I’m no expert, but they could have gained access to cellular infrastructure and made a private network. I mean- the knowledge to create a private cellular network is freely available. Cellular standards such as LTE are not too hard to set up given enough time

In S. Florida in the 1980s, the cartels used a bunch of ham equipment, usually out of band. Good times.

They did use the scrambler for their "encryption" which is even worse than rc4. Not to impressive

Do ham radios taste like ham?

@@brrrrrr Eh, probably not. More like beer and b.s.

@@grayrabbit2211 :(

KIM!!!! You forgot your Spanish? Remember Castro? It means Falcons my overlord of the poorest Asians...

Why does the president have so few likes u will all get executed

It means Hawk's 🤣

things is stuff and are junk and other such crap

Halkones is a type of a bird

{Dolls}

Damn

Not funny

@@Gaviid too soon?

@@Gaviid BTW I like Devin Stone.

Do you know serbian?

@The Real Talk with Jacob Wilson halcón means hawk not falcon

@@sharkfaceguy The word halcón can be used for both.

@@iykury que?

@@iykury oh

They are called Zetas not veras

That’s not funny it’s supposed to be something ironic instead of something good like the network

Modem*

@@ado6520 that's.... not my understanding of it. Apologies.

@@simpleinverso8628 i kinda forgot what it was but i edited it now sooo

I remember back when I was a kid I used to throw bricks into higher end cars I saw in Rodeo drive. I wonder if any of those bricks were fired bricks. Would be poetic haha

You're* *angry grammar nazi noises*

@@UnQuacker thanks! your a saint! ;)

@@SummerSausage1 *even angrier grammar nazi noises*

@@UnQuacker thank you so much, I’ve been making this mistake for years 😬 (English is not my first language)

Same

Basically, nearly all the countries' govs would fit that sentence. Which is truly sad.

Specially latinamerica

Part of the problem is that even having a monopoly on taxes just isn't as profitable as selling cocaine.

Lo ciento

Where can I get a nerd licence?

@@R3lay0 Look up "amateur radio" or "ham radio", there is probably a club in your area that runs a course on how to pass the test which you can usually take at the end of the course through a "volunteer examiner". I was thinking from this description it sounded more like the linked repeater systems that ham radio operators use...just hams don't use the encryption...and can't talk about selling drugs (or even most legal things) on the air. ^_- Some links mostly relevant to where I live: links.ve4.ca

Is Yreka the read-headed step child of Eureka? And is the “reka” part pronounced the same in both?

73!

@@videotaper2272 it was actually a GMSR network, illegal of course but repeaters can be bought by anyone and resellers do not ask questions about the final purpose.

They simply have the motivation and nescesity to do it. While government pigs keep allowing them to do so.

Because they are

It's not that they're smarter, exactly... it's just that government runs on taxes, and telecom companies run on cell phone profits... and neither one of those allows you spend as much money as when you sell cocaine, opiates and methamphetamines. Also if you can just kidnap the best techs in the business for your sysadmins and network admins, it really cuts down on recruiting costs.

You'd be amazed

*RAGING BOOTLICKING GOVERNMENT LOVING PUNISHER NOISES*

And the singular is "halcón", not "halcone" (Same goes with "tamal" and "tamales". No relation, but damn! It irks me when I found the word "tamale"!!)

@@PlaneguyAN225 no, go to your corner

@@PlaneguyAN225 nah you look like you would watch wendover productions

The word has the same origin as the word falcon, but means hawk. Go figure.

Also, the h in halcón doesn't make any sound

STFU

Came to say the same thing. Looks like a DMR, P.25 or other commercial encrypted radio network - in which case the pics of people using cell phones and cell towers aren't relevant. Maybe we're missing part of the story?

I mean when you get into the more advanced features of trunked radio do you really blame them for thinking it’s a cellular service?

@@imafuturecorpse2443 Reminds me of London Interbank Overnight Rate running their cartel in the clear posting openly unenciphered

@@imafuturecorpse2443 The creator of this video repeatedly used technical terms, in order to sound knowledgeable. So yeah, they should be expected to know what those terms mean, and to use them correctly. As it stands, this video is a minimally informative mess.

Wrong, halcones are falcons, there is a difference, for example an eagle is an aguila because they are different species.

@@ericktellez7632 on a interview with people from cartels they explain why they use that term. The term would translate to hawk, you aren’t wrong about being two different species though.

@@ericktellez7632 it could also translate to gavilan but they don’t use that word to specify a type of bird lol. It’s just something that they use to name the people who are scouting for them

@@ithetruelegend umm, halcones clearly translates to halcones in English... did you not watch the video?! Sheesh.

@@ithetruelegend "Halcón" is a falcon, "gavilán" is a hawk. Cartel people are translating it as "hawk" only because they don't know proper English, or possibly don't even know the difference between a hawk and a falcon. Someone calling a falcon "a hawk" out of ignorance is not a reason for everyone else to start making the same mistake.

@Istvan Slobozs it's a joke you wonkie

@Istvan Slobozs u are a wonky donkey

how did you do that?

@@aaditkolar5521 refer to my first comment

WP and HAI are the same person?! Lies and madness!

People become geniuses when a cartel kidnaps them and forces them to make a network lmao

@@syed--2023 which part or who got kidnapped to be blackmailed into producing that? if you don't understand the content don't make irrelevant comments since English is not your native language.

@@worldview2888 What's your problem man? Can't take a joke? Or do you just hate me in general for some reason?

@@syed--2023 forgive me i'm sorry because i look very deeply into this stories and i work in NGO helping such problems in developing nations. when i see such problems i took it too seriously (as i always want to help because i work in NGO social care services.) i am sorry syed.

Allow me to introduce myself,i work with "time inversion"

I'm pretty sure that was the point he was making. It was a joke about it not being a Serbian word.

Halcones is Spanish for hawks 😂

Which is why there is a hawk @1:28

@@OscarDriftz falcon

@@doommagic yank humour

Same, still felt right.

Joke, what joke?

Oh, that was a hanging curveball over the plate.

I'd just like you to know you've got the biggest laugh out of me all week

It's weird indeed. Everywhere I comment, people tell me how much they love me and my videos. Sometimes it is annoying. But right now it would be okay. So say something nice about my content, dear bac

??? Why

LOL

Strap the kidnapped engineers to towers, boom free phonenetwork.

And not to support the oil and gas industry even though you need oil to build solar panels

As a computer engineer who has dabbled in wireless protocols, you dont want to know. Trust me.

Welcome to Half as Interesting, where Sam only barely explains the titular question and spends the other half of the video elaborating on some barely related thing.

Why it's only HALF as interesting

Hmm... I Wonder Why.

Yeah?

Huh weird...

*bEcAuSe iTs tHe sAmE gUy*

@@hurshjsoni ur the clown lol r/woooosh

VPNs don't do much for security. You can still see the traffic, it's just more difficult to work out where it's coming from.

@@nikkiofthevalley They also encrypt the traffic, so cartel's mobile operator would only see phones exchanging encrypted traffic with let's say AWS servers, which are used also by tons of popular services. If done right it would be very difficult distinguish from regular users, and impossible to read even if anything was suspected.

That would be fully interesting.

it's spanish

he said fun y word