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Or a special combat operation.
Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
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Nobody knows the identities behind the attack.
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What group is that? Do you have a link to any further info here?
I think this is what the parent refers to https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1599253199126683650 , though there is no confirmation that they are behind it, only that they are glad that it happened.
"the power is out and I know why" implies advance knowledge of the attack at the least, and most likely their involvement in planning/coordination. why else would she know?
Also, we shouldn't mince words here, this is a terrorist attack on civilian infrastructure for political ends. If this had been done by islamists, we'd call it as such. Instead we play the "gosh well she technically didn't say she did it" and "gosh how can we tell what the motivations might be" games... like, we have a group openly claiming responsibility for the attack here and people want to play the "how can we really know anything?" crap. C'mon.
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#34In west Texas, vandals use power transformer bushings for target practice all the time.
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#35This is a dead-ringer for the Metcalf sniper attack: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/05/272015606... Edit: dead-wringer => dead-ringer
Yeah and no. Metcalf was similar in terms of targeting the transformer with rifle fire. But it was more professionally done (in terms of minimizing forensic footprint) and more hands-off, compared to the gate being pulled down by a truck as in this case. There are a number of potential suspects, but my feeling is that if there are no arrests in 72 hours you can expect a bunch of copycat attacks. Substations are very…
The FBI is investigating after a right wing extremist appeared to take responsibility for the attack, with the intention of disrupting a local transgender event. [1]
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1599464591196491777?cxt=...
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It’s so outrageous that it makes me wonder if it’s real or a possible cover/false flag/test for something else.
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They seem pretty reasonable to me and I monitor this kind of thing for a living. There are absolutely groups that are this radical and organized. What dooms most radical groups is one of 3 things:
- inability to shut up leads them to boast
- LARPing revolutionary war shit makes them go for the excitement of massing at hard targets state capitols etc. where they are usually easily contained
- bloodlust takes over and a member cuts straight to murdering and is quickly located
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#37I wonder how well stocked the U.S. is with replacement inventory for facilities like this.
On NPR Marketplace recently there was a utility-size transformer maker interviewed who said their current lead time was well over a year.
https://www.marketplace.org/2022/11/14/a-shortage-of-electri...
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#38I wonder how well stocked the U.S. is with replacement inventory for facilities like this.
It isn't the replacing part that is the problem, but the rebooting part that is the larger worry.
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Yeah and no. Metcalf was similar in terms of targeting the transformer with rifle fire. But it was more professionally done (in terms of minimizing forensic footprint) and more hands-off, compared to the gate being pulled down by a truck as in this case. There are a number of potential suspects, but my feeling is that if there are no arrests in 72 hours you can expect a bunch of copycat attacks. Substations are very…
The authorities quoted in the article said whoever did it had a good understanding of the power grid and what they were doing. Maybe it's common enough knowledge, I don't know but it gave me the impression that it wasn't trivially easy to do, making copycats, especially by just the kind of dumbass who would copycat this, less likely
I addressed this in the rest of the paragraph you commented on. I would prefer not to go into detail on the mechanics or the specificity or sources of the instructional materials.
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#40Would not be surprised to learn they got this idea after all the news coverage of the infrastructure attacks in Kyiv