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FBI arrest man over alleged Amazon centre bomb plot
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- tyingq 6y agoProbably easier to buy an orange vest and a hardhat and rent an excavator.
- erdos4d 6y agoYep, you can do way more damage to a data center with a bulldozer than with a truck bomb, almost as fast too.
- tyingq 6y agoIf you know where the fiber comes in, longer lasting damage.
- irscott 6y agoThis was my thought as well. Plus this particular dc is massive and would require an absurd amount of c4 to destroy.
- hirundo 6y agoIf anyone contacts you now and offers to loan you an excavator, be suspicious.
- LinuxBender 6y agoOr drive by with an overpowered RF amp and signal generator (sdr). It would brick a percentage of the network equipment and not physically harm anyone. If you knew what equipment they had you could even research which frequencies/harmonics cause the most havoc to their gear.
- paxys 6y agoThe investigations into incidents like these has always seemed dubious and morally gray to me. - Guy posts online "Amazon data centers should be blown up" - Undercover FBI contacts guy "you are totally right. You should do it. Here's a bomb." - If guy is backing out, he gets coaxed into it further. There is often mental illness involved. - Guy attempts to use "bomb", gets arrested. - Charge that should have been making an online threat is now terrorism. Not saying that he is innocent, of course, but what are the chances that he would never have followed up without the government's involvement? Why not just charge him for making a threat to begin with?
- JKCalhoun 6y agoI know what you're saying — feels like entrapment. But then I remember there is no way in hell I would meet a guy delivering me C4.
- amelius 6y agoThe particular FBI agents involved have probably learned how to best approach this, so reality is probably different than what you imagine.
- tyingq 6y agoAssuming delivering C4 was the stated purpose of meeting. It's certainly possible, but...
- swiley 6y agoC4 is an odd explosive to use, you can can probably buy others on the internet.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y agoMental illness isn't an excuse for socially damaging behavior. People who can be coaxed so easily into attempted murder of so many people are a threat to society and should be arrested.
- atlgator 6y agoAgreed - Not a fan of entrapment schemes.
- kordlessagain 6y agoWhat an idiot.
- rossdavidh 6y agoWhile social media have a lot of negatives to answer for, I believe, having eroded a lot of the social norms of communication which hold society together, they have done one thing that we can all be thankful for: they gave various wingnut idiots a place to announce "I shall commit a heinous act" on, prior to actually doing so. Of course, it is entirely possible that he was just saying this stuff for attention. But then, he might also have actually done it for attention. How does one tell the difference? Well, one way would be to offer to sell him an explosive, and see if he actually buys it.