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Capitol Rioter Admits He Hatched Plan to Destroy the Internet by Bombing Amazon Servers

For weeks this spring, 28-year-old Seth Aaron Pendley had plotted an attack on Amazon data centers in Virginia. He had already taken a sawed-off rifle to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Now, he hoped to cripple much of the Internet and take down government networks.

Last April, he finally arranged a meeting with a man promising to provide the C-4 explosive devices. When they met in Fort Worth, Tex., the man showed Pendley how to arm and detonate the powerful bombs.

But just as Pendley placed the devices into his Pontiac, federal agents swarmed in and arrested him. The bomb seller was actually an FBI plant who had helped unravel a plan Pendley believed could “kill off about 70 percent of the internet.”

On Wednesday, Pendley pleaded guilty to planning to bomb Amazon facilities in an attempt to undermine the U.S. government and to spark a rebellion against the “oligarchy” he believed to be running the country.

washingtonpost.com

I know AWS doesn’t always fail over to a functioning datacenter when one site goes down like it should, but thinking he could take down the Internet this way tells us he isn’t rational just as much as wanting to be a mad bomber does.

You’d need a virus that exploits router vulnerabilities to take down the Internet.