Vandals sever another Internet backbone cable in California

pcworld.com ^ | July 1, 2015 | janes Niccolai

[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.

[BenLurkin]

ping

[mountainlion]

It looks like they may have hit again about an hour ago.

[bkepley]

Soft terrorism by who knows what ideological type.

[rednesss]

Or a pissed off ex-employee who knew where to go and what to cut.

[17th Miss Regt]

I am guessing these are dry runs for something much more widespread.

[BenLurkin]

As revolutionary acts go, it certainly makes more sense than killing innocent people.

[SunkenCiv]

Obviously white racist gun nuts did this. /s Thanks BenLurkin.

[Domangart]

As many copper thieves that there are. This is the most likely cause. The next would be union activity. They reported that the three wires were cut thru. I smell an employee.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Muslim terrorists, anarchists, or just plain nasty people who enjoy destroying.

[Cboldt]

No copper. This is glass cable. Salvage value is close to zero.

[Norm Lenhart]

Well its a safe bet, as usual that it isn’t conservatives behind it. You would think people would start pointing out just who IS behind all the various crimes. It ain’t us. Never has been, never will be.

[dragnet2]

Probably. The data cables can be located easily in rural remote areas. Power lines too.

[Norm Lenhart]

BIGOT! they need room to destroy...

[JoeProBono]

what they need is about a dozen shark-killing dolphins trained to kill vandals patrolling the waters at night.

[Norm Lenhart]

Sob...Just let them touch these things once! (Sob...)

[Jeff Chandler]

just plain nasty people who enjoy destroying.

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[BenLurkin]

“Dolphins with frickin’ fiber optic cables on their heads!”

[sport]

Leave Clarence Thomas out of it and I will agree.

[matt04]

Though it is always satisfying to hear about some copper theif whining a Darwin Award.