You can wipe hard drives remotely, but the data is then not fully gone (can still be recovered). However, it's super easy to break hard drives that are running, by a minor earthquake of blast. That doesn't wipe the data either. But you then only need to pay off whatever company is involved in checking and recovering all hard drives from the blast, to not restore specific data you aim to get rid off. The original hard drives will be restored (to protect the data) once the data is "recovered".
I don't believe disrupting internet was the goal here. I don't think spreading fear was the goal here, as no one got killed and there was a warning before that.
I also don't believe this was a suicide because the explosion was just too massive, for someone to have pulled off on his own. And that explosion was truly overkill. It can only have been designed to cause damage. And we no the damage was not intended for people, but clearly for the data center itself.
Also the human remains will not enable anyone to asses whether the human was already dead or still alive at the time of the explosion. I mean it might be possible, but I don't think the coroner will even try, it will just be "Yeah these body parts look like they resulted from an explosion.".
If I put my conspiracy hat on:
You can wipe hard drives remotely, but the data is then not fully gone (can still be recovered). However, it's super easy to break hard drives that are running, by a minor earthquake of blast. That doesn't wipe the data either. But you then only need to pay off whatever company is involved in checking and recovering all hard drives from the blast, to not restore specific data you aim to get rid off. The original hard drives will be restored (to protect the data) once the data is "recovered".
I don't believe disrupting internet was the goal here. I don't think spreading fear was the goal here, as no one got killed and there was a warning before that.
I also don't believe this was a suicide because the explosion was just too massive, for someone to have pulled off on his own. And that explosion was truly overkill. It can only have been designed to cause damage. And we no the damage was not intended for people, but clearly for the data center itself.
Also the human remains will not enable anyone to asses whether the human was already dead or still alive at the time of the explosion. I mean it might be possible, but I don't think the coroner will even try, it will just be "Yeah these body parts look like they resulted from an explosion.".