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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 PapayaSF · · Score: 5, Interesting

    sabotage being linked to unions is not exactly unheard of

    Indeed, that's very possible: the contract between the Communication Workers of America and AT&T expired on April 11th.

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  2. Eye Opener by FractalParadox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hopefully this catches enough attention to get people to evaluate their area's utilities similar to the blackout across parts of the US and Canada back in 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_North_America_blackout