[newnhdad]

So a bunch of FBI agents found a message thread on an obscure website, made an organization, invented like minded people, and convinced a guy to make devices by giving him the material and instructions. Then they arrest him.

[ransomnote]

So a bunch of FBI agents found a message thread on an obscure website, made an organization, invented like minded people, and convinced a guy to make devices by giving him the material and instructions. Then they arrest him.
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Yes. That’s how they do it.

[HollyB]

Bingo

[Texas Fossil]

That is possible, but remember the guy in the van in Nashville, TN across from AT&T's switch and router network? He appeared to have blown himself up.

There was talk about that one, suggesting a connection with election election data being stored there. That AT&T facility was telephone switch facility and a data storage site.

AT&T had just signed a huge data collection contract for Law Enforcement.

AT&T is no longer just a telephone company. They have always been quasi governmental monopoly.

If this was not a FBI plant event, it suggests a pretty stupid attempt. Almost all large companies are covered by huge camera systems. Someone is arrested.

[Texas Fossil]

I missed this:

“The bombs had the letters “CMT” written on them and contained written threats to the comms companies”

If they were going to bomb the store, why would a note be in the box? And why would the unknown “CMT” be written on the box? And “written threats” implies written by hand.

Does not pass the smell test on that level.