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Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by beerandt »

vinay427 wrote: post #74
BuildTheRobots wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the UK I've only ever encountered diesel fuelled generators with tanks usually long enough to run the DC for hours if not days. Easy to see in hindsight, but I guess I'm slightly surprised at the use of generators running off mains gas for this very reason. Does anyone know how common this is in the USA? Liveleak actually has some security camera footage with audio of the recording: https://www.liveleak.com/view?t…

Anecdote: In my experience, a small but sizeable number of homes in suburban areas that are still outside the city enough to be affected by weather-related power outages every several months have whole-home generators connected to city natural gas lines. Growing up in one of these areas, there was the occasional power outage (once a year or so at most) but I can't recall any gas line outages. Those who had whole-home…

Gas lines don't typically go out due to outright outages for these types of situations, but I've experienced multiple outages in the past few years due to the grid not being able to accommodate the surge of demand during large power outages.

It's even worse/ more likely to happen for hurricanes, when natural gas wells and pipelines are shut-in in anticipation of the weather.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by hhh »

This feels very similar to the Metcalf attack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

If I were to speculate, this feels like it could be a test of response before further action. If they wanted to kill people at AT&T, the HQ is only a few blocks away. This seems very... crafted for an attack.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by jamroom »

drak0n1c wrote: post #166
olefoo wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What we're seeing is a "stochastic insurgency" where loosely affiliated groups and individuals conceive, plan and execute infrastructure attacks and targeted assassinations. Relatively little operational coordination; but lots of online showing support and post-crime support. I hope all congressional representatives and local government officials are reviewing their safety plans.

Stochastic terrorism abound indeed - a couple days ago in WA there was a massive train derailment and fire at a Berkshire Hathaway railway previously targeted by arrested saboteurs. They were anarchists rallying under the cover of Antifa, one such decentralized stochastic phenomenon. https://komonews.com/news/local/oil-train-derailed-near-site...

The linked article mentions anarchists opposed to the pipeline in British Columbia. I see nothing about Antifa.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by nodesocket »

joshuakelly wrote: post #57
tptacek wrote: post #44

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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.

While that's true, I think two factors strongly indicate that this was targeted at the ATT building. The first observation is, of course, that the ATT building was the closest to the explosion. A direct witness to the RV broadcasting the evacuation message, who lives across the street, describes this fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8 . The second observation is the evacuation message itself. How often…

My theory is just a suicide, where the person did not want to hurt or kill anybody else, but wanted the notoriety. Additionally my theory is current or ex military who did it. Terrorist attack does not make any sense.

For what's it's worth, I live in Nashville.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by unethical_ban »

Scoundreller wrote: post #87

Reports that most of Tennessee is without 9-1-1 service right now: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32982150-AT-T-Suffers-outa... And AT&T mobile is down across Kentucky: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32981927-Services-Suspicio... Also reports above that calls into Tennessee aren't working.

It is pretty nuts that a single physical location can bring down a state's worth of 911, and cellular.

It is either institutional incompetence, or malice, or laziness.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by Threeve303 »

Ancapistani wrote: post #5
jrockway wrote: post #4

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What sort of conspiracy are you imagining here? Someone exploded an RV in an entertainment district so that AT&T had an excuse to disable service while the NSA installed wiretaps? I think that as investigations unfold, that will not end up being what happened. Just a guess though.

Given what little we know, targeting the AT&T infrastructure could be a reasonable guest a motive. The blast itself didn’t seem to take the hub offline; there was a broken water main followed by AT&T being refused access to the building by emergency response. It appears that things started cascading a few hours later, presumably once the generator fuel was exhausted.

> Given what little we know, targeting the AT&T infrastructure could be a reasonable guest a motive.

This is all I meant. Not meaning to spread conspiracies or misinformation. One article (have to find the source) stated that one of the main buildings hit was owned by AT&T and of course the HQ is there. Maybe it's related, maybe not. Just trying to make sense of the situation with limited information.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by drefanzor »

olefoo wrote: post #153
ideophobia wrote: post #148

Considering the FBI recently foiled a plot by a group who was planning to "take out" parts of the energy grid, it seems likely from my experience that this is another set of people executing a similar plan targeting telecoms. I imagine there is a high probability of more incidents like this happening between now and the inauguration, meant to target various infrastructure and "big government" components throughout th…

What we're seeing is a "stochastic insurgency" where loosely affiliated groups and individuals conceive, plan and execute infrastructure attacks and targeted assassinations. Relatively little operational coordination; but lots of online showing support and post-crime support. I hope all congressional representatives and local government officials are reviewing their safety plans.

you'll be ok

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by sillysaurusx »

ALittleLight wrote: post #190
sillysaurusx wrote: post #101

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Let's not idolize crazy. Fascinating, yes. But supervillains have redeeming qualities. There's nothing redeeming about a car bomb.

Well playing a warning and picking a time and place to minimize casualties is some kind of redeeming. It would certainly be worse if they tried to kill people, picking a crowded place and time.

I guess. I'm just sad I lived to see a second legit terrorist attack on American soil. I remember being in 8th grade when sept11 happened.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by cinquemb »

meekmockmook wrote: post #189
cinquemb wrote: post #175

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I left the US 5 years ago… I think the US will be ground zero for this "Innovation" (although proof of concepts have been deployed in the ME for years, tech cheaper now for more people to use for their own ends)… :P I don't think anywhere is completely safe, but I do think some places have less likelihood of such happening due to the backdrop not skewing incentives as much in those places for such to happen, but ever…

Where did you end up? And did you feel your quality of life improve?

> Where did you end up?

Multiple places (Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Seychelles, Malaysia, Japan) but Indonesia for now, but I've been working remotely for about as long (a little bit longer) as well over multiple jobs.

> And did you feel your quality of life improve?

Compared to my COL in Boston (and midwest and other places in NE/NYC before that) and what I'm getting now? Yes

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Post by drak0n1c »

jamroom wrote: post #193
drak0n1c wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stochastic terrorism abound indeed - a couple days ago in WA there was a massive train derailment and fire at a Berkshire Hathaway railway previously targeted by arrested saboteurs. They were anarchists rallying under the cover of Antifa, one such decentralized stochastic phenomenon. https://komonews.com/news/local/oil-train-derailed-near-site...

The linked article mentions anarchists opposed to the pipeline in British Columbia. I see nothing about Antifa.

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