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Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the where'd-I-put-my-sidecutters dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Vandals snipped another fiber optic cable line in the San Francisco Bay area this week, the 12th incident of its kind in the region over the past year.

The latest attack occurred in the San Joaquin Valley town of Stockton, disrupting Internet, mobile phone, and 911 service for tens of thousands of AT&T and Verizon customers in three counties east of San Francisco. Service was restored about a day after the Tuesday incident.

The FBI, which is investigating the attacks, has not stated a motive, but it said the attacks usually occur in remote areas where there are no surveillance cameras. The initial attacks on California telecommunications lines began in July 2014. Whoever is responsible appears, for the moment, to be operating with impunity.

It would be funny and appropriate if they kept snipping the cables running to the Wall Street high frequency traders that keep front-running everyone's trades. Also, potentially lucrative if you go long in Depends adult diapers first.

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:30AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:30AM (#211804) Journal

    See also our here [soylentnews.org].

    It was too late to stop this one because comments had already been made. We wouldn't want to be accused of censoring comments by killing a story.

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:52AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:52AM (#211817) Journal

    You silly editor, Janrinok!@ If it wasn't for the fact that the level of discourse is much better in this thread, I might be a bit put out. But, probably not. Carry on, mon frere!

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by TheRaven on Tuesday July 21 2015, @09:02AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @09:02AM (#211849) Journal
    It doesn't count as a dupe if it's a dupe of a HughPickens submission - we skip over those after seeing the submitter name anyway.
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