[HN Gopher] FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in ...
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       FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS bomb attack
        
       Author : el_duderino
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2021-04-09 20:49 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
        
       | dahdum wrote:
       | We'll see in trial, but based on this article it doesn't look
       | like the FBI groomed this guy to commit a crime, but someone
       | handed him off to an undercover agent after he was intent on
       | doing it. That's nice to see.
        
       | therockspush wrote:
       | First thought when I see the headline is another case of the FBI
       | "catching" a bomber that they gave the bomb to.
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       | Read the article and the complaint and it's the FBI grooming
       | another useful idiot while patting themselves on the back. I'm
       | just picturing this kid with his hand drawn crayon maps of the
       | AWS buildings and talking bout "70% of the internet" and
       | "oligarchy". Funny but sad.
        
         | olliej wrote:
         | Not quite - this time it seems like the person was already
         | stating they were planning to blow up the data centers.
         | Slightly different from the other FBI idiocies which are closer
         | to "this person said they hate amazon, lets radicalize them
         | until they want a bomb"
        
         | gtirloni wrote:
         | How was that grooming? He already had all the plans and was
         | after the explosives. Someone just contacted the FBI and got
         | him arrested. Do you see any evidence the FBI told him he
         | should bomb those buildings and then arrested him for it?
        
         | darig wrote:
         | We need an FBFBII to add some checks and balances to the
         | system.
        
       | glitchcrab wrote:
       | It's _always_ us-east-1
        
       | d-d wrote:
       | A more direct approach to serverless technology.
        
       | more_corn wrote:
       | Destroying one AZ in one region would not (should not?) take down
       | a single AWS customer. ALB are multi AZ, it's trivial to deploy
       | services across azs. Everyone should be ok.
       | 
       | Although I'm sure AWS has not done a disaster test where they
       | actually bring one down so who knows if regional services would
       | come out unscathed.
       | 
       | How pissed off do you think he's going to be when he learns that
       | not only was the bomb fake, even if he had a bomb it would have
       | amounted to little more than a disaster recovery test?
        
         | cheeze wrote:
         | > I'm sure AWS has not done a disaster test
         | 
         | I wouldn't be so sure about that.
        
         | kevinventullo wrote:
         | I would not be at all surprised if AWS periodically tests
         | bringing down a whole AZ. Facebook has been doing this for
         | years.
        
         | bellyfullofbac wrote:
         | And I don't think the three letter agencies are on AWS
         | anyway...
        
         | QuinnyPig wrote:
         | In larger regions, single AZs span multiple buildings. He'd
         | have had to basically raze 100 square miles of northern
         | Virginia...
        
           | rafale wrote:
           | It would make more sense to target internet "backbone"
           | routers, no?
        
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