Re: Sabotage attacks knock out phone service [Telecom]
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Posted by on April 13, 2009, 3:19 pm
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 there wasn't any copper in those cables . . . How much does anyone want to bet it was something stupid like that more than intentional DOS? Bill Ranck Blacksburg, Va. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by T on April 13, 2009, 10:49 pm
Please log in for more thread options One of the prime reasons I believe it was someone inside is that they knew just what to cut and where. The everyday idiot doesn't know where most UG fiber is. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by danny burstein on April 14, 2009, 9:38 am
Please log in for more thread options [snippage] It's not hard to figure out. Just look and see what name is on the maintenance hatch cover. That being said, how sure are "we", as in the general public, in our belief that only the four super duper important cables were cut? How's about the scenario that a couple of dozen were sliced, but the other 20 or so weren't even noticed and aren't being reported? -- _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] | |||||||||||||
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Posted by AES on April 14, 2009, 11:18 pm
Please log in for more thread options Wouldn't elementary TDR pretty readily locate at last some of these? | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Scott Dorsey on April 16, 2009, 3:08 pm
Please log in for more thread options Yes, and they'd get fixed. But the issue isn't whether the problems are detected, the issue is whether they are announced to the public or not. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." | |||||||||||||
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> a world of trouble if he, she or they get caught.
> "I pity the individuals who have done this," said San Jose Police
> Chief Rob Davis.
> Ten fiber-optic cables carrying were cut at four locations in the