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drray23

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Sat Dec 26, 2020, 02:21 PM Dec 2020

Nashville Bombing, grid infrastructure and cyber attacks.

I am wondering if any security expert has commented on TV about the intersection of all these things. Recent hacks have exposed a lot of government agencies and fortune 500 companies.
For years we have known that grids like energy or communication are vulnerable. The Nashville explosion appears to have disabled part of the ATT network there. Whether this was the goal or not is unknown.
However if it was, one might ask whether or not knowledge about where to strike was gathered by hacking.

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Nashville Bombing, grid infrastructure and cyber attacks. (Original Post) drray23 Dec 2020 OP
I'm wondering the same thing. Was Russia responsible for the Nashville bombing? LaMouffette Dec 2020 #1

LaMouffette

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1. I'm wondering the same thing. Was Russia responsible for the Nashville bombing?
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 03:08 PM
Dec 2020

Someone else here on DU alerted me to the Russian apartment building bombings in 1999 that led to Putin's rise. Apparently, President Yeltsin looked like he was going to lose the election, so, it is speculated, Putin and the Russian Federal Security Commision (FSC) blew up some apartment buildings and blamed it on Chechan terrorists. The bombings sowed enough terror, chaos, and confusion that Yeltsin got elected. When Yeltsin got kicked out for corruption, Putin took over. Here's an article about all that from Business Insider:

[link:https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-1999-russian-apartment-bombings-led-to-putins-rise-to-power-2018-3|

Russian involvement seems possible due to the recent massive Russian hacking, as drray23 points out.

Also, the Nashville bombing seems too calculated and sophisticated for Trump's followers to have been able to carry out.

Could be wrong. Could just be an intelligent lone wolf like Ted Kaczynski. Apparently they have a "person of interest." See where that leads.

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