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A Cyber-Attack On an American City

Posted by timothy on from the if-by-one-day-you-mean-already dept.

Bruce Perens writes "Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes in the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city. Its implications, though startling, have gone almost un-reported. So I decided to change that."

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  1. Re:Terrorists? Probably not. by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Understood, I was just envisioning in my mind dozens of wingnut drones trying to make that connection.

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  2. Re:Hams FTW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Up until they die of brain cancer from being too close to their antennas, at which point we all golf-clap in delight that another fat-ass, middle-aged house hermit wasting his time on his toy radio has bitten the fucking dust.

  3. Re:Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy... by Swampash · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So is the answer to nationalize our fiber infrastructure? Is that the only way we can make our systems secure?

    Why don't you just move to Sweden, socialist!