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Sprint Routers Stolen; NYC Internet Outage Ensues
cbnet2004 writes "This story on eWEEK reports that late Sunday night a number of Sprint's DS-3 network cards were stolen from a Verizon colocation center at 38th St in Manhattan. Some customers apparently have service back but a number remain down -- it could be a while. The latest rumor on this situation is that some fiber optic cables were cut as well; this could put the affected customers out for days more."
Be on the lookout for crackheads with amazingly fast internet connections!
This story's been on for a while and i see very few posts .... not even the usual fp BS .....
How many people were affected by this?
What kind of stupid moron would steal something like that. Probably some crackhead shmuck who didn't know what it was and figured it was worth a buck.
Who'd you sell it to? Dude will be busted. Someone walks up to you in an alley and say "wassup cuz you wanna buy a ds3 innernet?" it raises eyebrows.
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If it's so easy to steal these things, I hope nobody steal's my ISP'#353708534 ### NO CARRIER ###
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NIC thieves busted! Traced by MAC Address when the stolen components were plugged in.
Sounds like a disgruntled Verizon customer decided to take out his frustrations...in which case I can hardly blame him. It's unfortunate that others had to suffer, but a man can only get passed from call center to call center so many times before he snaps like a dried twig.
I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
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Kind of like setting the password for your atmospheric shield to 1-2-3-4-5, then later finding out it's the same combination President Skroob uses for his luggage.
...dumb crackheads with amazingly cheap DS-3 cards for selling on eBay.
in addition, no notice of the outage was posted to Sprint's Scheduled Maintenance and Outage page. Under FCC rules, phone carriers must report outages affecting more than 50,000 subscribers within two hours WHAT you are supposed to schedule your DS-3 cards being stolen 2 hours in advance
You might be able to get one cheap.
Talking about stealing cable....
No, no, the slow speed is because the guys who stole the cards are trying to download the entire internet at once. Pr0n prioritized.
Some dude just sold me some DS3 cardz for like $30 bucks a piece! But they wont fit in my computer PCI slot! Plus I cant find where my phone jack plugs into it!!@!!!!!@# Someone help me! Man, im gonna be able to download so much more stuff than my dialup connection!
Thanks!~~~
How hard is this one to figure out?
"late Sunday night a number of Sprint's DS-3 network cards were stolen from a Verizon colocation center at 38th St in Manhattan"
This can also be read:
"late Sunday night a number of MAJOR TELCO's DS-3 network cards were stolen from a RIVAL MAJOR TELCO colocation center at 38th St in Manhattan"
The reward money can be sent to my spam-obfuscated email addy.
Okay, to the person who posted this in response to my personal description of some of VeriSign's security...THIS is why!
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
The outage affected area customers of Sprint Corp., including Ziff Davis Media Inc., the publisher of eWEEK.com.
No wonder eWeek was the first on the story, even though it took them a while to publish it.
That's the best you could come up with? Yeesh. I've read it 4 times and I still don't get it.
How about "from the quick-put-the-dilithium-crystals-back-in-klingons- approaching dept" or "quick-find-the-hamster-the-lights-are-going-dim dept"?
Please feel free to reply with better department lines. Or an explanation about what the hell this whole bike/bike lock thing is about...
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Funniest damn thing I've read since Sasser.
Then again, I suppose it does take some network connectivity to build a Beowulf cluster...
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
What if a terrorist had got in there and blew up all our data.
Then, if your hosting company isn't full of morons, you will restore it from the multiple backups.
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6. PROFIT!!!!
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One company even took me into a place where pretty much all the connectivity in Seattle passes through (a level 3 node or something, I can't recall the name.) This place was secured by two locked doors with no guards and street level access. I have seen plenty more 'security' that would be pretty easy to bypass. If you were a terrorist, it would be pretty damn easy to destroy many of these places.
My Comcast Internet is flaky enough as it is, you don't need to give terrorist ideas.
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GOOD. Then these places deserve to be blown up. If destroying a single site can knock out connectivity to millions of people then you really need to re-evaluate your risk assessment. The Internet was designed to withstand a nuclear war so that men locked away in bunkers would be able to masturbate to pornography after all the women were killed.
Even though this is a Verizon location, the fact that it's Sprint equipment just makes it BEAUTIFUL in my eyes. Last time we had a problem with our Sprint OC-3, I called up the emergency number and got a voice prompt run around. Mind you, the POS interface was down/down with no sign of why it happened. Finally I got a "tech" who said the line was working normally. Then he said that he actually didn't know if it was up or down. At that point, I flipped out and told him to put a real tech on the line who could help me. Of course, that never happened, he instead forwarded it to their Layer 1/2 group. That whole experience left me with a horrible taste in my mouth. At a previous job, I had a mere T1 to Genuity. One time my boss needed a crossover cable and he took the one between the router and the firewall (can't make this crap up). Within mere minutes, Genuity called (this was the weekend mind you) and said "Ethernet0 is showing down, any idea why?" Let's see, Genuity is proactive with a T1, yet Sprint couldn't give a damn about an OC-3 POS line.
"Nature doesn't care how smart you are. You can still be wrong." - Richard Feynman
Gap #1 - Physical Security of Critical Equipment
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Well... maybe not found it... but sure found a replacement!
I wonder if Sprint can afford it.
Hmm... I wonder if I just put myself, or them, on the FBI watch list...
That reminds of a story I once heard. Some thiefs hired a pickup truck and attempted to steal a high-voltage sub-transformer from the side of building. Of course, they had to cut through the copper wiring first. (Un)fortunately, they failed to consider the concept of switching the power off first, and got the shock of their lives.
where the BOFH works now?
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
White polo, khakis, and a Notepad.
I know there's a joke about bringing pico, nano, vi, etc getting you farther than notepad in there somewhere....
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
My favorite one at my school was two people walked into a 'secure lab' - you needed an access card to enter into the room. The door was propped open to let some air in. They walked into the back room, picked up two servers, put it on a cart and left.
This happened when the lab was completely full in the middle of the day.
My spidey sense tells me that there are four really cheap DS3 cards to be had on eBay. Gotta go!
-R
FP!! Wtf though is up with these ungodly ping times here in NY.
The pirates who wanted more bandwidth have landed in New York!
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Hello owing to the death of my rch uncle I have come into possesion of some advanced technology. However due to the import / export restrictions I am unable to move it out of the country. I have some ds3 internet cards I will give you in return. Please contact me as soon as possible.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=51264&item=3093986798&rd=1
If sprint bids high, they can have it back in 20 hours.
here you go:
a te gory=61832&item=3094887466&rd=1 :P
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&c
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Reminds me of a saying I picked up some time ago, "If you can boot it, you can root it"
Vixie gives it an allow ACL.
Cisco's "Packet" magazine calls it "this season's most secure flick".
NANOG calls it "an interface to remember".
(ignore the creative liberties. I was out of ways to tie things together...)
it worries me that people can just roll in there and steel our equipment
I don't need to worry about that because most of my equipment is steel already. Except my Powerbook, which is aluminum.
What if a terrorist had got in there and blew up all our data.
That would be terrible. I remember one time when I spilled all of my data on the floor. I was cleaning it up for days; it's almost impossible to get data out of a carpet once it dries!
For terrorists this would be a major blow to interest banking which they so abbhor.
I'm sure Osama bin Laden is at this very moment plotting to destroy those infidel bankers that are keeping his billions secure and earning him a nice revenue stream through his investments.
Tech one. Shit its got to be the net card.
Tech two. Where the hell we gonna get one at this hour.
Tech one. I aint waiting here all night to get the thing online again.
Tech two. Hey let me check one of those boxes over ther.....
I would write something, but unfortunately I live in NYC and can't get online to make a comment right now.
:(
Sucks...
Dude, where's my card?
Crackheads? It's not like it's a sparkplug