[Kartographer]

May be the FBI can borrow Inspector Clouseau to get to the bottom of things. Hopefully before someone knocks out the nations communications grid.

[driftdiver]

Disgruntled ex-employee is my guess.

[driftdiver]

Or maybe someone looking for some overtime.

[WayneS]

Maybe he thinks he gets enough roughage in his diet...

[Smokin' Joe]

As monitoring software lighted up with red bars indicating several circuit failures, technicians pinpointed the breaches at a familiar place—the site of two previous cuts.

As if no one would ever do that again?

Was nothing changed to make this more difficult, even after two previous events?

[Scrambler Bob]

the nations communications grid. —

Or the source of all brainwashing; depends on your perspective.

[Yo-Yo]

Time to design lockable manhole covers.

[ColdOne]

This FBI...will only find the perp if he is a God lovin’ white guy.

[hosepipe]

Wonder if there is picture of Barney Fife on the wall at FBI Headquarters..
or even a Shrine to him.. with candles and everything..

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’d be looking for a suspect with a turban and a pair of bold cutters.

[SaveFerris]

“Like the previous six, the victim was found folded neatly in half inside a trash dumpster.

Police are baffled.”

[Uncle Miltie]

Same general area as the test run on the electrical grid by shooting up a sub-station.

Someone is dry-running a total takedown of technical infrastructure.

The FBI had better get busier.

[PoloSec]

For sure an inside job...

LESSON #1: Never Ever Hire A Muslim!
LESSON #2: Learn Lesson #1 IDIOT!

[kingu]

I remember when there was some mysterious line cuts near China Lake and Ridgecrest a number of years ago. Large chunks of telco wire were sliced at two points along a major trunk. When 128k modems came out, there was some line issues that were preventing them from being used at full speed. Turned out that right smack between the two line breaks was a house owned by a Russian sleeper who had installed quite a clever little installation to monitor modem communications over telco lines.

I imagine that the only way to tap a fiber line is to make a couple cuts and install whatever device you want somewhere between the breaks.

[huldah1776]

non-subscribers...

http://tomfernandez28.com/2015/08/12/attacks-on-fiber-networks-in-california-baffle-fbi/

[realcleanguy]

The FBI is’t really looking. Seriously. a good Telco manager, with the data and cable maps could figure this out in 90 days. I can see a pattern just from the news reports. I forwarded information to the FBI and got “No Response”. They could care less. The FBI is nothing but an arm of the ruling party. I mean, look how long it took them to request Hillary’s server? 3.5 years????Who are these guys, the keystone cops, or a partisan security team?

Ok, I’m off my soap box. But they are a lame organization

[Political Junkie Too]

Looking at the map in the article, three thoughts pop out.

1. The cuts triangulate around the largest company in the area, Chevron. Could this have been an attempt to disrupt Chevron?

2. Looking at cut #1 and #4, could this have been an attempt to disrupt the Lawrence Livermore Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore, by cutting the communications to Berkeley?

3. Could the cuts have been intended not to disrupt, but really have an agent on the repair team to install some sniffers right into the lines as a part of the "repair?"

-PJ

[TangoLimaSierra]

...a series of cables that collectively carried billions of bits of Internet data.

Kind of an understatement there.

[VideoDoctor]

Probably within a half dozen to a dozen more cuts they’ll probably have some definite clues. /s