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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: 2, Interesting) by patella.whack on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:55AM
Given SF's history and the recent uproar over rising rents, it seems like these occurrences might be the result of a fairly small organized group of people who want to disrupt the high-tech goings-on in 'their' city. In the current parlance: domestic terrorism. Is it a turf battle? Seems like it. Can anyone here add to this theory?
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Tuesday July 21 2015, @09:26AM
I'd be looking towards the people who lived in the area before Silicon Valley became a tech center rather than hippies if I was you. I don't really have any love for them but come on. What seems more likely here, calm and timid stoned hippies suddenly deciding to be malicious or the same types of people that tried to harass the google buses not liking the raises in CoL and rent that is allegedly the fault of the SV companies?
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(Score: 1) by patella.whack on Tuesday July 21 2015, @06:57PM
Well, Lagg, you raise a lot of questions re: social issues which surely deserve discussing. I'd love to get into the current details of SF politics if you can enlighten me a bit.
But wow, who do you think is behind all these cuttings?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @10:26AM
Stockton is central valley.
It is as far to Stockton as it is to Sacramento, which either means this is someone doing this alongside another job, or is a group of people doing it either to get new taps (For the Utah NSA datacenter perhaps?), trying to provoke an increase in opsec for fiber lines, or setting the foundation for a larger or controlled disruption in the future.