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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. I know who did it by Coren22 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just take a look through the list of people laid off by AT&T in the past year.

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  2. I know I know! by Krishnoid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's these guys! Can I have my money now?

  3. Critical Cable? by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There shouldn't be critical cables. There should be redundant paths to make the network tolerant to any individual cut.

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    1. Re:Critical Cable? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Not until you run them through the same conduit through the same bridge. All because you took different contracts with different ISP's for redundancy, but their upstream suppliers both used the same long-haul carrier for their fiber-optic link.

  4. Dangerous Act Of Terror by JimSadler · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Cutting communications lines is a particularly difficult type of terror attack to prevent. Anyone who has ever worked around vital communication lines knows where they are and breaking those lines can be quite easy. Catching such a person may take quite some time and expense. Let's hope this is not the scheme of some foreign enemy.

    1. Re:Dangerous Act Of Terror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Can we maybe stop referring to every fucking criminal act out there as a "terror attack?" It's childish and stupid. It's the same mentality that got the front page story of the day on practically every website, a non-white kid in a US school builds a clock and brings it to school to show to his teachers. They arrest him and attempt to have him charged. People like you are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for this. Your irrational fear of "terrorists" has gotten the better of you, mentally and as a society as a whole.

      "Let's home this is not the scheme of some foreign enemy," fuck's sake...grow the fuck up you racist cocksucker.