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Vandals sever another Internet backbone cable in California
pcworld.com ^ | July 1, 2015 | janes Niccolai

Posted on 07/01/2015 3:46:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Someone hacked through yet another fiber optic cable in the San Francisco Bay area early Tuesday morning, continuing a rash of incidents that have disrupted Internet traffic and vexed law enforcement officials.

The latest attack occurred at around 4.30 am Pacific Time near the town of Livermore, about 50 miles east of San Francisco. Someone climbed down a manhole cover there and cut through several fiber optic cables, according to several reports. The FBI is investigating.

The cables are operated by backbone providers such as Level 3 Communications, which sell capacity to other cable and Internet providers. The cables carry huge amounts of data, so cutting them can slow services over a wide area.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; cybersecurity; fiberoptic; infrastructure; internet; livermore; sanfrancisco
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To: Grimmy
"Please add me to your list so’s I’ll know when my internet isn’t working!"

"So let it be written. So let it be done."

You are in like Flynn...

41 posted on 07/01/2015 5:19:16 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: UCANSEE2

You really give these people too much credit for brains. I watched a thief being arrested after he took out an occupied FAA facility.


42 posted on 07/01/2015 6:23:13 PM PDT by Domangart
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To: Cboldt

No shit. You should be a brain surgeon.


43 posted on 07/01/2015 6:25:02 PM PDT by Domangart
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To: Domangart

What an insulting prick you are. More successful at that than I would ever be at brain surgery.


44 posted on 07/01/2015 6:28:57 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Projection.


45 posted on 07/01/2015 6:47:47 PM PDT by Domangart
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To: BenLurkin

Next thing you know, those Tea Party Types will be Hijacking all the Trucks carrying KY, Vaseline and Astrolube that are headed into San Francisco.

Then you’ll really see the Shit hit the Fan.


46 posted on 07/01/2015 6:52:48 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Erections have Consequences, just ask Obama's Parents. Oh wait, they're Dead.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Thank you

(This message being sent via morse code)


47 posted on 07/01/2015 6:58:44 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Cboldt
Cboldt - what's your best guess motive - and your nightmare worst case scenario...
48 posted on 07/01/2015 7:04:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (Dems are going to finally build the border fence - - they'll shoot us if we try to leave...)
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To: GOPJ
Mostly speculation on my part, but I think disgruntled employee or ex-employee. Not many points cut simultaneously, as far as I know, only one location per instance.

Worst case is multiple simultaneous instances like that fellow who set fire to a switching station - he was a pissed off employee too, IIRC, but it takes longer to repair a node than a line.

49 posted on 07/01/2015 7:13:25 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Mad Dawgg

Thanks.


50 posted on 07/01/2015 7:27:20 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Jet Jaguar; Chickensoup

"So let it be written. So let it be done."

You are on! Chickensoup, you is already on it.

51 posted on 07/02/2015 3:45:19 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

The Soup is There! Thanks!


52 posted on 07/02/2015 4:40:54 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Domangart
No shit. You should be a brain surgeon.

WTH is your problem? You mentioned copper and he gave a reasonable answer.
Why would you come back at him like that?

53 posted on 07/02/2015 8:58:56 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: BenLurkin

Did area hospitals have a run of people with Facebook and Twitter withdrawal?


54 posted on 07/02/2015 9:09:45 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: TangoLimaSierra

How do you conflate “copper thief” with the element copper? Please explain your logic?


55 posted on 07/02/2015 11:27:20 AM PDT by Domangart
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To: Mad Dawgg

Nice! -— said in the voice of Richard Dean Anderson as Col. Jack O’Neil from Stargate: SG1

Vandals eh? Pfft, that’s nothing to worry about. I’ll get concerned when the Visitoths start cutting the Interwebs backbone! Now THOSE are some tough hombres!


56 posted on 07/02/2015 11:52:38 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: BenLurkin

LOL I was just about to post that! I swear...


57 posted on 07/02/2015 11:57:44 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Domangart
How do you conflate “copper thief” with the element copper? Please explain your logic?

You are making zero sense. You should lie down a while.

58 posted on 07/02/2015 6:58:37 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Is it real? Is this it? Is this really it?


59 posted on 07/02/2015 9:01:08 PM PDT by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell)
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