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Multiple Fiber Cuts In San Francisco Area
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."
The NSA has volunteered to help fix the cables.
Someone should have told that guy not to cut and run!
*ducks*
Could be someone trying to steal the fiber cables so they could sell the copper.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Infrastructure. Infrastructure. Infrastructure.
I'm happy just to see someone on the Internet spell "wreak havoc" correctly...
rj
A loss of communication could only mean one thing: Invasion.
Demented But Determined.
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.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
At least he spelled something right in that sentence.
I judt got a nre Kinesis keybiartf so please excusr ant egregiou typos.
We learned another important detail about Conficker. Not only does it destroy software, but it feeds on fiber!
Obviously the answer is the use of fences, cameras, GPS systems installed in everyone, and the outlawing of the "terrorist fist bump." Problem solved.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
.. a large cargo ship that got extremely lost and had to put down anchor.
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!
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
Get some pipe and welding equipment.
Yours In Corruption,
Ted Stevens
At least this happened in a geographically fortuitous area when it comes to repairing the damage. I hear San Francisco has some of the most experienced pipe specialists in the country
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Question everything
I dugg your slashdotteriffic post after I reddit.
Vitrus repairo. You never pay attention in Flitwick's class.
-Peter
Nah, this is San Francisco we're talking about after all. They'll probably trace it back to a couple college kids who heard smoking fiber gave you a killer high and immediately start up federally funded fiber-smoking bars.
Violence is like duct tape. If it doesn't solve the problem, you didn't use enough.
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.
At least he spelled something right in that sentence.
Just not somewhere.
You had to bring Mr. Webster in for this? Like bringing a gun to a knife fight, no?
I don't get it... How would that help Verizon sell you additional services?
You spelled 'servitude' incorrectly...
Look at the bright side. If some mp3's fell out of the tubes they can nail the perps for the truly heinous crime of pirating music. Isn't that an automatic death sentence now?
Why?
terrorizing the internet itself!!