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

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. OMG, he's messing with my netflix by known_coward_69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    death penalty

  2. No real harm done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since AT&T was obviously not using those fiber lines properly to begin with.

  3. missed opportunity by mschaffer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally, I am a bit disappointed that the reward wasn't 256k.

  4. Expert knowledge, specialist tools and TIME TRAVEL by gweilo8888 · · Score: 5, Funny

    My god, he has access to time travel as well!

  5. 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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  6. Re:I know where he is. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And, he's probably gay. From the summary:

    * The latest incident has taken place in the San Francisco Bay Area
    * Gained access to the enclosure via a manhole

    I mean, comeon. Right?

  7. 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.