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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: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:47AM
Civilization is fragile and depends on a hell of a lot of infrastructure
Really? jmorris spake thus? Whence the free market? Whence the lack of government interference in the infrastructure attacks of free persons? My God, if they succeed, we would not be able to read jmorris's opinions on his lack of ability to express his opinion. Or get his pron.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:31AM
Conservativism, like nearly any ism, is not at all consistent. This story is one of extreme revenge to barbaric extremes (it always is when the words "make an example" is used) for little morris, thus fits with his profile just fine.