<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">The kid sending these (if it is Bytefend, who has a history/tweets of bragging about attacking Frantech within the past month if I understand correctly) is going to be looking at serious jail time given the amount of evacuations he's caused already. A brief list:<div dir="auto"><br></div></div><a href="https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/police-clear-downtown-columbus-building-after-bomb-threat-10-19-2021" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/police-clear-downtown-columbus-building-after-bomb-threat-10-19-2021</a><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://miami.cbslocal.com/2021/10/19/miami-att-call-center-evacuated-bomb-threat/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://miami.cbslocal.com/2021/10/19/miami-att-call-center-evacuated-bomb-threat/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/franklin-county/greenfield-police-and-fire-investigate-bomb-threat-at-gcet/amp/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/franklin-county/greenfield-police-and-fire-investigate-bomb-threat-at-gcet/amp/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/rockford-university-evacuated-due-to-bomb-threat/amp/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/rockford-university-evacuated-due-to-bomb-threat/amp/</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/8274492/bomb-threats-kitchener-waterloo/amp/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://globalnews.ca/news/8274492/bomb-threats-kitchener-waterloo/amp/</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article255116937.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article255116937.html</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.technicianonline.com/news/nc-state-receives-bomb-threat-university-police-close-section-of-hillsborough-st/article_2ceca39e-30ea-11ec-a068-47bacab4a0f0.html">https://www.technicianonline.com/news/nc-state-receives-bomb-threat-university-police-close-section-of-hillsborough-st/article_2ceca39e-30ea-11ec-a068-47bacab4a0f0.html</a></div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 11:30 AM Miles Fidelman <<a href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Matt Hoppes wrote:<br>
> I've now heard from several operators - our selves included - about <br>
> getting an e-mail bomb threat to our datacenters asking for $5,000 USD <br>
> or the "bomb will be detonated".<br>
><br>
> Is this being seen on a wide spread e-mail blast to the RIR contacts, <br>
> or am I just unlucky to know like 6 other data center folks who have <br>
> also gotten this e-mail?<br>
><br>
>  It seems like a very odd/bizarre spam/threat campaign which would <br>
> carry significant jail time.<br>
<br>
And now I REALLY want to get moving on a service to drop a drone on <br>
spammers.  (Active Countermeasures!)<br>
<br>
Miles Fidelman<br>
<br>
-- <br>
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.<br>
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra<br>
<br>
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.<br>
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.<br>
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:<br>
nothing works and no one knows why.  ... unknown<br>
<br>
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