Texas man planned to try and take down "~70%" of the internet by attacking Amazon Data centre

[Dwarvenhobble]

Texas man charged with planning to blow up Amazon data center in Virginia

The Wichita Falls man was arrested Thursday after receiving a fake bomb from an FBI undercover employee.

www.nbcnews.com

The FBI arrested a Texas man Thursday on charges of hatching a plan to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia.

Court documents say Pendley came to the FBI’s attention after agents received a tip that he was posting alarming statements on a forum popular with militia groups, mymilitia.com. He began communicating through an encrypted messaging app with another person, who told the FBI that Pendley planned to use plastic explosives to attack the tech company’s data centers “to kill about 70% of the internet.”

The FBI says he told the undercover operative that he wanted to attack the data centers because he thought they served the FBI, CIA and other federal agencies.

On one hand seriously American Militias are nuts.

On the other, if the 70% claim has any kind of basis to it then does that say something rather worrying about how much of the internet is controlled by just one company?

 

[Gordon_4]

Texas man charged with planning to blow up Amazon data center in Virginia

The Wichita Falls man was arrested Thursday after receiving a fake bomb from an FBI undercover employee.

www.nbcnews.com

On one hand seriously American Militias are nuts.

On the other, if the 70% claim has any kind of basis to it then does that say something rather worrying about how much of the internet is controlled by just one company?

I doubt it has any claim in reality at all.

 

[Kwak]

Texas man charged with planning to blow up Amazon data center in Virginia

The Wichita Falls man was arrested Thursday after receiving a fake bomb from an FBI undercover employee.

www.nbcnews.com

On one hand seriously American Militias are nuts.

On the other, if the 70% claim has any kind of basis to it then does that say something rather worrying about how much of the internet is controlled by just one company?

Is that where The Cloud is?

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

Is that where The Cloud is?

seems like it now. Unless you use google. Or are in a Weatherspoons pub

 

[BrawlMan]

Sucks to be him. Have long, wonderful life in prison ya dumb ass.

 

[Kae]

I hate Amazon as much as anyone else but even this seems extreme for me.

 

[Eacaraxe]

On the other, if the 70% claim has any kind of basis to it then does that say something rather worrying about how much of the internet is controlled by just one company?

Oh not, not at all. It should not be of least concern the infrastructure upon which contemporary global communications and commerce is built, and near-exclusively reliant upon post-COVID, is chokepointed through a handful of data centers owned and operated by trillion-dollar multinationals that really do only have our best interests as private citizens in mind, with little if any redundancy or oversight. Especially when those multinationals are partnered with the intelligence community.

Sorry, I seem to have gotten a little NSA on my keyboard.

 

[Gergar12]

What's the motive? Because I read the article, and there wasn't any.

 

[Dwarvenhobble]

What's the motive? Because I read the article, and there wasn't any.

"big gubberment be spyin on me"

 

[Schadrach]

On the other, if the 70% claim has any kind of basis to it then does that say something rather worrying about how much of the internet is controlled by just one company?

Amazon controls more of the world's raw computing power than any other entity on earth (most of which they rent out in the form of things like AWS). Most of the rest is controlled by the other large tech companies you'd expect.

Blowing up one data center isn't going to take down 70% of the internet - blowing up a large percentage of all Amazon data centers worldwide would likely get you into the mid double digits though.

"big gubberment be spyin on me"

I mean, he wouldn't be wrong, and Amazon is certainly doing their part to help the government to do so, but it seems like misdirected anger (aim it at the government, not Amazon) coupled with not nearly enough firepower to actually do anything about it to Amazon.