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.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:59AM
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Long time residents of Portland are being driven out of their homes in part due to this being a popular location for startup companies and in part due to the legality of no-fault evictions.
I have come to agree with the theory that the cable cuts are the work of those who want to drive out the engineers.
I tried to explain fiber optics to my mother. She listened patiently but then called comcast anyway because she pays a lot of money for her TV shows.
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