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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2015, @01:47AM
No, it is pretty spot-on. Though you must figure yours to be the "civilized" response.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday July 22 2015, @03:30PM
External disaster relief and donations was most definitely not what curunir_wolf was talking about.
I must have missed the press coverage of how the Japanese people who had survived the water and the destruction instantly started bickering and fighting.