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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) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:38PM
My life they may take, my integrity never.
We should all stop pussy footing around and talk about this clearly. Others are [huffingtonpost.com]. Like Huffington Post or not, it's a media outlet a lot of people read and that's on the front page. I've seen similar sentiments expressed in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. The 1% fear it, but we know it. If things in America (and the entire developed world, frankly) don't turn around abruptly and for the better, severed fiber optic cables will be the very least of the 1%'s problems.
Of course they won't turn around because the 1% think everything's just dandy. Everyone they know tells them so.
It's going to be a rough couple of decades.
Washington DC delenda est.