A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
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Re: A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
#2Far Right Extremist seems to be an accurate label.
Using the screen name Dionysus, he posted on MyMilitia.com, a forum dedicated to organizing militia groups, about his plan to “conduct a little experiment” in 2021.
“I’m not a dumbass suicide bomber,” Pendley wrote. “But even if I only have a handful of fellow patriots standing beside me, I will happily die a young man knowing that I didn’t allow the evils in this world to continue unjustly treating my fellow Americans so disrespectfully.”
He also claims to have been part of the Jan 6 insurrection.
On January 11, 2021, he told an associate on Facebook that he went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, made it to the platform where he interacted with police officers but did not enter the building. He told another associate on Facebook that he had taken a piece of glass from a window at the building.
ref: https://conandaily.com/2021/04/09/seth-aaron-pendley-biograp...
Re: A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
#3Far Right Extremist seems to be an accurate label. Using the screen name Dionysus, he posted on MyMilitia.com, a forum dedicated to organizing militia groups, about his plan to “conduct a little experiment” in 2021. “I’m not a dumbass suicide bomber,” Pendley wrote. “But even if I only have a handful of fellow patriots standing beside me, I will happily die a young man knowing that I didn’t allow the evils in this wo…
How was he part of the "insurrection" if he did nothing illegal?
Re: A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
#4Not to turn a blind eye to what would have been a tragic loss of life, but how resistant is Amazon to such an attack, data-wise?
How much collateral economic damage can you do by taking down an AWS data center?
Re: A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
#5Far Right Extremist seems to be an accurate label. Using the screen name Dionysus, he posted on MyMilitia.com, a forum dedicated to organizing militia groups, about his plan to “conduct a little experiment” in 2021. “I’m not a dumbass suicide bomber,” Pendley wrote. “But even if I only have a handful of fellow patriots standing beside me, I will happily die a young man knowing that I didn’t allow the evils in this wo…
How was he part of the "insurrection" if he did nothing illegal?
It's possible the insurrection claims were just crap that he made up. It seems likely the FBI would have been dealing with him back in January, if he were part of the group trying to overthrow the election.
Re: A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
#6Far Right Extremist seems to be an accurate label. Using the screen name Dionysus, he posted on MyMilitia.com, a forum dedicated to organizing militia groups, about his plan to “conduct a little experiment” in 2021. “I’m not a dumbass suicide bomber,” Pendley wrote. “But even if I only have a handful of fellow patriots standing beside me, I will happily die a young man knowing that I didn’t allow the evils in this wo…
How was he part of the "insurrection" if he did nothing illegal?
For the same reason a getaway driver is part of a bank robbery despite "not doing anything illegal."
Re: A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
#7Not to turn a blind eye to what would have been a tragic loss of life, but how resistant is Amazon to such an attack, data-wise? How much collateral economic damage can you do by taking down an AWS data center?
Yet another alleged would-be bomber who seems to have been goaded by the feds, I'm not too concerned about the alleged would-be loss of life.
I don't know the particulars, but I imagine that Amazon is insured, so they wouldn't suffer greatly from the loss of one data center. Lost storage would be painful to some, but if folks are backing up regularly it shouldn't be a huge hit. I doubt amazon does long-term storage at the same sites as their cloud servers, so data loss should be fairly minimal -- though, if a long-term storage facility got hit, we'd probably learn a lot about amazon's commitment to redundancy. Smaller websites would be at the biggest risk, I think, but the internet would largely route around the damage within a few hours.
Re: A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
#8Not to turn a blind eye to what would have been a tragic loss of life, but how resistant is Amazon to such an attack, data-wise? How much collateral economic damage can you do by taking down an AWS data center?
I don’t know much about this data center but I imagine it’s pretty massive. It’s probably highly redundant with multiple pipes in and out on all ends. I highly doubt this guy could procure enough explosives to take out the entire data center.
Granted, I’ve never blown one up so I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about.
Re: A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
#9He's clearly mentally ill. Unfortunately, that won't stop a lot of bigots from exploiting this to further their agenda against the far right.
Re: A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
#10Woke up on the wrong side of bed again, dang?