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Could just be good planning if they knew that was procedure after an explosion.

It could be interesting for regulators to see if anyone "miraculously" managed to make a lot of money from/during this incident, because some people do have the resources to pull something like this off and make a profit from it. But I think it's rather unlikely.

Aside from that, I seriously doubt that just disruption of AT&T services was the objective here. Considering that this appears to have been a rather serious explosion, I guess the intent was more likely destruction rather than disruption.

With the amount of 5G nut jobs running around these days, I suspect that it is far more likely that somebody just seriously underestimated what it takes to bring down a building like this one.

But I guess that time will tell (more). I'm just speculating of course.

It honestly reminds me of something from an Ocean's movie, where they destroy some piece of infrastructure just to get past a security camera or something

But the 5G conspiracist angle actually makes a ton of sense.

There’s always the option of disgruntled/fired employee out to destroy the company.

AT&T has been pushing really hard on folks in the last year to take early retirement packages that would give you a fraction of what you would have gotten if you stayed on until being eligible. Friend of mine recently took the package and found a job elsewhere and commented that morale is pretty down if you are in that camp.

Anyone working on AT&Ts infrastructure (to have familiarity with what that building even is) knows that small attack won't bring them down.

I agree unlikely but that same thing crossed my mind, an oceans 11, Italian job plot, knock out AT&T and the bank alarms go out ? I doubt it but come Monday Morning if a bunch of bank vaults in the area are cleaned out, it would be a pretty amazing heist plot for sure. But they would have to have some inside info because most C.O.'s have diesel generators so if the AT&T C.O. there depended on Natural gas, someone would have to know that. Also, most of them have 4 - 8 hours of battery so the AT&T services went about that long after. I am sure the cops are standing guard in front of the banks right now I would guess.

Markets and banks and such were all closed because of the holiday.

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