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Re:Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Car... by thatguy0900 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @06:42PM (#33859349)
Vast majority of physical infrastructure has no security beyond a rickety fence. It is good that most terrorists are as mentally unstable as they are, because a rational person with some easily homemade bombs could easily disable most anything they want with no real chance at being caught.
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Re:Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Car... by ckdarby on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:10PM (#33859599)
Yes! A single person with a bunch of time, $200k, and making purchases that aren't watched at all has all the resources required to take out the entire electrical grid and cause mass loss of life.

Legit too scared to even write the concept down in the event someone got the idea to even try.

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Re:Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Car... by Aeolun on Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:11PM (#33860090)
I think most people here can extrapolate from what you have said to an actionable plan. We simply have no motivation.
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Re:Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Car... by pessimizer on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:05PM (#33859559)
Or it could be that there simply aren't very many terrorists that want to hurt random civilians without the FBI's encouragement.

I think it has more to say about how civil the countries and groups the US has attacked are, at least when it comes to hurting US innocents in return.

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Re:Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Car... by fbdab103 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:37PM (#33860292)
Bombs seems like too much work. I think you could drive a truck into most electrical stations too much the same effect.
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Re:Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Car... by thatguy0900 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @09:03PM (#33860514)
You can probably only do that once, though. There's really no reason to be caught with a quick timed bomb throw and walk away. Or just shooting it with a rifle from accross the street after reading some Wikipedia pages to learn where to shoot.
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