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AT&T Offers $250k Reward To Find the California Fiber-Optic Ripper

Posted by samzenpus on from the crime-stoppers dept.

An anonymous reader writes: AT&T have offered a $250,000 reward to anyone providing information leading to the arrest and conviction of what appears to be a serial disruptor of fiber-optic connections in California. The latest incident has taken place in Livermore in the San Francisco Bay Area, where an individual thought by the FBI to possess expert knowledge and specialist tools severed a critical AT&T cable, gaining access to the enclosure via a manhole. The attack precedes 11 previous ones in California in the preceding twelve months.

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  1. 'Precedes' preceding previous 'preceding events' by dywolf · · Score: 1, Informative

    *sigh*

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    The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
  2. Re:Critical Cable? by Harlequin80 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Redundancy does not preclude criticality. In the end no network is infinite so if you keep cutting cables eventually it will do down, but irrespective with every cut connection performance will degrade.

  3. Expert knowledge and specialist tools? by pla · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seriously? Find a pole marked in orange (or in this case, manhole). Take the bolt-cutters to the only armored cable on the pole / in the hole. Make sure to repeat at least a few feet away to make it virtually impossible to splice cleanly.

    This doesn't take "expert knowledge and specialist tools", any moron could do it.

    Now, doing it without blinding yourself with a 40W IR laser beam...