I’m not buying the att building being the target

I mean what do you think they were targeting?

Data centers are built like government facilities because they are government facilities.

So you think they were going after the Hooters?

I think they just wanted to blow something up .

That's implicit in the activity itself

Nothing in particular

It's very bizarre that a recording warned people to get away from the bomb.

@james j I'm thinking it was someone who got laid off from AT&t or early retired from AT&t.

They drove up there and killed themselves in the RV.

And they were intending to put a big dent into AT&t's infrastructure...

Nah

So you think someone randomly decided to explode a device they created and just happened to park it in front of the AT&t building?

If the aim was to inconvenience the general local population for a few days he succeeded . That typically isn’t the motivation for a bombing. Usually more existential

Do we know anything about Brazil

If it was successful it would do a lot more than inconvenience the locals for a few days..

You're talking about no 911.

All government facilities in the area no data communication.

The city isn’t wholly dependent on att

Everything runs off of AT&t lines.

AT&t owns in Lisa's all of the infrastructure and the data Network.

It doesn't matter if you get the stuff from XYZ provider the lines are still AT&t's lines.

They already have back ups in place for communication

You're dreaming.

You just don't know buddy.

This wasn’t a terrorist attack with any real motive

Not att related

I don't think it was either.

@james j ???

You don't understand how telecommunications works...

Ah yes, I'm just going to go make myself explode.

For no reason.

In the middle of the city.

@Maw all I’m saying is that att was not a target

Google's building out its own fiber infrastructure in Nashville.

Google was already implicated earlier

I'm not implicating Google...

Well someone should

Brazil is suspect

One of facebooks founders is from Brazil