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Comment by dendrite9 | Hacker News Reader

Could this be more CLODO attacks?

"Machines in Flames is an experimental documentary that details the journey Thomas and Andrew underwent in the search for the group CLODO (Committee for Liquidation and Subversion of Computers). CLODO were/are an elusive group who were invested in attacking and burning down computer centres in France in the early 1980s. After a series of attacks in Toulouse, they disappeared and were never discovered."

https://machinesinflames.com/ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/le-clodo-clodo-speak... https://landscapesurgery.wordpress.com/2022/05/23/machines-i...

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This is a option that shouldn't be discounted. Listened to the excellent Popular Front podcast on CLODO (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-anti-tech-militant...). These were very sophisticated, probably computer scientists themselves who were horrified at how the tech would be used and sabotaged a lot of the infrastructure. Seemingly just to make a point in the history books that the way things went was not without resistance.

>This is a option that shouldn't be discounted.

Why not? In all of the material that you and GP link to, it is said that CLODO was last active in the 80's and then vanished, never to be heard from again. That's over 30 years of apparent inactivity. There are some coincidences between the target and CLODO's previous targets, but... that's it.

Edit: From Wikipedia...

>Since December, 1983, CLODO has no longer been classified as 'active' by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.

So, forty years, not thirty.

CLODO is a French slang word for homeless, in my youth (50 years ago) it was used sometimes as a synonym for "hippie".

"One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clodo

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