A Cyber-Attack On an American City

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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Aha!

[PopeRatzo]

From the article:

unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes serving 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

What "appears" (to the author of the article) to "be an organized attack...blah..infrastructure..blah". What made this "organized", that it takes two people to lift a manhole cover (which isn't locked)?

Journamalism.

I wonder why this "Bruce Perens" (if that is his real name) didn't mention that they found tea bags strewn around near the severed cables? Hmmmm?

I notice from the San Jose Mercury article that Verizon took the brunt of damage and was the only carrier that was completely out for a short period of time. Hmmmmm...