The Secret Service indicated that the devices could carry out anonymous telephone threats and disable cell towers, while facilitating encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises. The initial coverage focused on the threat to New York City, and this is certainly significant in its own right. The technical expertise demonstrated by this threat would likely be far beyond the capability of ordinary criminals, and if it proves that a hostile foreign power is behind this, then that foreign power is very hostile indeed. The recent designation of Antifa as a terrorist enterprise is only one aspect of this threat. We have also seen how the left-wing sympathy for Hamas invites the meddling of some very dangerous foreign actors.