Multiple Fiber Cuts In San Francisco Area 368
georgewilliamherbert writes "Multiple news reports, mailing list posts, blogs, and tweets are pointing out two overnight acts of sabotage in the San Francisco Bay area, with long distance fiber network cables being cut in two locations in the early morning hours. The first cut, around 1:30 AM, affecting landline and cell phone service and 911 calls in the communities of Morgan Hill, Gilroy, and parts of Santa Cruz counties, was on an AT&T fiber alongside Monterey Highway near Blossom Hill Road, in San Jose. A second cut, around 3:30 AM, in San Carlos, affected Sprint fiber and has significantly disrupted services at the 200 Paul datacenter in southern San Francisco. Rumor says that this may be related to a AT&T communications workers contract having just expired — but no evidence has been published yet in the media, and this could be an intentional act of sabotage by someone unrelated to the company's workers."
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Meh (Score:3, Funny)
Someone should have told that guy not to cut and run!
*ducks*
Scrappers (Score:5, Funny)
Could be someone trying to steal the fiber cables so they could sell the copper.
Revenge of the SysAdmin? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why our infrastructure is vulnerable (Score:5, Funny)
I'm happy just to see someone on the Internet spell "wreak havoc" correctly...
rj
Re:Scrappers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scrappers (Score:2, Funny)
Comm Loss (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scrappers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This just in (Score:5, Funny)
"You break it, you fix it."
It's a wave *and* a particle (Score:3, Funny)
Could be someone trying to steal the fiber cables so they could sell the copper.
Give him a break guys, after all since the cables are carrying photons they can simultaneously be glass and copper. It all depends on what you do with them.
Re:Why our infrastructure is vulnerable (Score:5, Funny)
Conficker (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why our infrastructure is vulnerable (Score:5, Funny)
Or it could have been... (Score:2, Funny)
.. a large cargo ship that got extremely lost and had to put down anchor.
Re:Sabotage by a unionized employee? (Score:5, Funny)
What does the worker's ionization level have to do with anything? I'll pick up a stray electron here and there, maybe some beta radiation from the coal plant, but that doesn't mean I'm a bad person!
Fiber Cut Solved: +1, PatRIOTic (Score:5, Funny)
Get some pipe and welding equipment.
Yours In Corruption,
Ted Stevens
Re:Scrappers (Score:5, Funny)
I hear the price on transparent copper is through the roof these days.
Looking on the bright side (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scrappers (Score:3, Funny)
"Hello? Computer?"
Re:If this was indeed sabotage.... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:This just in (Score:3, Funny)
Nope, it had to have been those darned vandals. You know, the ones who knew precisely which manhole to go down, had the tool to open it, knew which wires to cut and had the heavy-duty equipment to cut the large cables.
Re:Tweets (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This just in (Score:5, Funny)
Nope, it had to have been those darned vandals.
At least it wasn't those smelly visogoths who did it.
Re:Just curious... (Score:2, Funny)
Vitrus repairo. You never pay attention in Flitwick's class.
-Peter
Re:Act of Terrorism (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Scrappers (Score:5, Funny)
You mean gold. It conducts light better.
You must work for Monster Cable.
I mean that in the temporal neutral sense: either you do or you should.
Re:Why our infrastructure is vulnerable (Score:3, Funny)
That sounds like something you'd reverse the polarity on to get a couple more tenths of a Warp speed when attempting to out run the Vrzn or Sprnt probes.
Re:It's a wave *and* a particle (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why our infrastructure is vulnerable (Score:5, Funny)
At least he spelled something right in that sentence.
Just not somewhere.
Re:Two cuts in two hours = 1 person (Score:3, Funny)
You had to bring Mr. Webster in for this? Like bringing a gun to a knife fight, no?
Re:This just in (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Why our infrastructure is vulnerable (Score:3, Funny)
I don't get it... How would that help Verizon sell you additional services?
You spelled 'servitude' incorrectly...
Re:these weasels always get to walk in a year or t (Score:2, Funny)
Re:If this was indeed sabotage.... (Score:3, Funny)
Why?
Re:This just in (Score:5, Funny)
thanks to the global recession.
Oh thank you recession! First you lowered our oil and gas prices. Now you tackle copper theft! Is there anything you can't fix?
internet terrorism takes a new meaning (Score:1, Funny)
terrorizing the internet itself!!