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Multiple Fiber Cuts In San Francisco Area

Posted by timothy on from the shame-if-anything-bad-was-to-happen dept.

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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  1. This just in by CRCulver · · Score: 5, Funny

    The NSA has volunteered to help fix the cables.

    1. Re:This just in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The NSA has volunteered to help fix the cables.

      "You break it, you fix it."

    2. Re:This just in by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

    3. Re:This just in by GNUbuntu · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nope, it had to have been those darned vandals.

      At least it wasn't those smelly visogoths who did it.

    4. Re:This just in by SupremoMan · · 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?

  2. Meh by edlinfan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone should have told that guy not to cut and run!

    *ducks*

  3. Scrappers by SnarfQuest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could be someone trying to steal the fiber cables so they could sell the copper.

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    1. Re:Scrappers by EkriirkE · · Score: 4, Funny

      You mean gold. It conducts light better.

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    2. Re:Scrappers by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not true. I cut a fiber and looked directly at it and it shined very much. It must have been good copper because I'm now blind in that eye :(

    3. Re:Scrappers by Lord+Ender · · Score: 5, Funny

      I hear the price on transparent copper is through the roof these days.

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    4. Re:Scrappers by HTH+NE1 · · 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.

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  4. Revenge of the SysAdmin? by deanston · · Score: 3, Funny

    Infrastructure. Infrastructure. Infrastructure.

  5. Re:Why our infrastructure is vulnerable by Deadstick · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm happy just to see someone on the Internet spell "wreak havoc" correctly...

    rj

  6. Comm Loss by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 5, Funny

    A loss of communication could only mean one thing: Invasion.

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  7. Re:Why our infrastructure is vulnerable by Itninja · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least he spelled something right in that sentence.

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  8. Conficker by odin84gk · · Score: 3, Funny

    We learned another important detail about Conficker. Not only does it destroy software, but it feeds on fiber!

  9. Re:Why our infrastructure is vulnerable by JCSoRocks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously the answer is the use of fences, cameras, GPS systems installed in everyone, and the outlawing of the "terrorist fist bump." Problem solved.

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  10. Re:Sabotage by a unionized employee? by Nimey · · 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!

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  11. Fiber Cut Solved: +1, PatRIOTic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get some pipe and welding equipment.

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    Ted Stevens

  12. Looking on the bright side by OMGcAPSLOCK · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  13. Re:If this was indeed sabotage.... by Thaelon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I find your ideas interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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  14. Re:Act of Terrorism by The+Mighty+Buzzard · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  15. Re:It's a wave *and* a particle by SCPRedMage · · Score: 5, Funny

    The cables are indeed both glass and copper. But only until you check.

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  16. Re:Why our infrastructure is vulnerable by frosty_tsm · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least he spelled something right in that sentence.

    Just not somewhere.