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Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by CamperBob2 »

kitteh wrote: post #25
jcims wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was the first person in my town to get residential ISDN back in ~1996. I was a fledgling admin on the network team and work paid for it. It took me almost three months to help the local telco get it up and running, but we could never get 64kbps on the data channels because of some weird issue with the switch. (Still beat the hell out of dial up) I think your comment is the first time I’ve read or thought about the…

Tragically there was nothing simple about ISDN. A customer would have to know their switch type at the CO and there were a number of other things that could break it. At least with a T1/DS1 you only had to worry about SF/ESF, B8ZS/AMI and number of channels.

ISDN was pretty much plug and play when I had it back in the day. The gateways were available off the shelf (IIRC mine came from CompUSA) and you could get them with either one or two B channels, as I recall.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

kryogen1c wrote: post #38

additional angle to consider under tinfoil: building ran telecommunications and the telecom outage affected the nashville airport, altering some flights https://twitter.com/Fly_Nashville/status/1342566428386488324... not to make a mountain out of a molehill, but thought experiments are good exercise.

It rarely hurts. It is certainly unusual in a lot of ways. The warning being probably towards the top. Before it was part of the news, I wondered why the initial police encounter resulted in cops immediately calling for a bomb squad.

I will admit that my initial thought was that this building was one of the windowless NSA buildings. I guess I was wrong.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by dragonwriter »

rightbyte wrote: post #27
metiscus wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, if it was true, no investigation would publically uncover that either. It would come out as some sort of lone wolf, x or y supremacists, anti-vaxx, anti-5g, nutjob. If you allow for conspiracies to exist, it becomes harder to judge truth since all facts become subjective.

> If you allow for conspiracies to exist, it becomes harder to judge truth since all facts become subjective. What are you talking about? Conspiracy theories? This bombing is a conspiracy by definition (Edit: Unless he acted alone). This missuse of the term conspiracy as something only a crackpot would use need to end. BTW my favourite conspiracy theory is that lunatic conspiracy theories are a conspiracy to limit fr…

> This bombing is a conspiracy by definition.

AFAIK there hasn't been any clear indication it's not a lone attacker; without conclusive proof of some joint project it's not “a conspiracy by definition”.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by tptacek »

joshuakelly wrote: post #22

This article doesn't make this so explicit, but ATT infrastructure appears to be the intentional target of the bombing. You can see the building in the helicopter shot at the top of the NYTimes article on the story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion.ht... Obviously a telecommunications/switch hub, with it being a large windowless building in a downtown core. The other thing that's particularly…

AT&T says that their services went down along with the gas & power in the area, as a side effect: the gas shutoff cut off their backup generators. That doesn't sound all that targeted.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by sitharus »

Pxtl wrote: post #45

Okay, this is the first I'm hearing about a bombing attack in Nashville, and the article kinda starts in media res - was anybody hurt?

Three people, none seriously. All in hospital in a stable condition - https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion/in...

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by rightbyte »

dragonwriter wrote: post #43
rightbyte wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you allow for conspiracies to exist, it becomes harder to judge truth since all facts become subjective. What are you talking about? Conspiracy theories? This bombing is a conspiracy by definition (Edit: Unless he acted alone). This missuse of the term conspiracy as something only a crackpot would use need to end. BTW my favourite conspiracy theory is that lunatic conspiracy theories are a conspiracy to limit fr…

> This bombing is a conspiracy by definition. AFAIK there hasn't been any clear indication it's not a lone attacker; without conclusive proof of some joint project it's not “a conspiracy by definition”.

Oh ye well I agree to that a lone wolf would be no conspirator. Forgot about that possibility.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by cwwc »

Timing on Christmas and the lengthy list of security systems that rely upon ATT.. makes me wonder. Some variety of a Heist? Seems it wouldn’t be market related given mkts already closed. This is far fetched, yeah. Maybe it was just someone who hates 5G.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by segfaultbuserr »

mintplant wrote: post #20

Reportedly, there was a visible countdown timer on the vehicle that exploded, and an audible warning played for 15-20 minutes prior to the blast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU

> officers and witnesses heard a broadcast coming from the RV giving a dire warning: “Evacuate now. There is a bomb. A bomb is in this vehicle and will explode." Then, the voice started a 15-minute countdown. Metro Police Chief John Drake said the six officers at the scene quickly began to evacuate the area, going door-to-door. They redirected a man walking his dog along the street.

This is surreal. Almost a scene from some Sci-Fi spy movie, in which the protagonist/antagonist performs a surgical attack on a strategic target while preventing unnecessary civilian death...

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by onionisafruit »

sitharus wrote: post #46
Pxtl wrote: post #45

Okay, this is the first I'm hearing about a bombing attack in Nashville, and the article kinda starts in media res - was anybody hurt?

Three people, none seriously. All in hospital in a stable condition - https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion/in...

They’ve also found human remains.

edit: now they aren’t sure whether it’s human remains or not. Just that it’s biological matter.

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