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Vandals keep snipping fiber optic cables in California with impunity
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.
Or maybe both.
Get ready down there, folks. It’ll be a different sort of rolling blackout summer.
Or they are the people paid to repair the cables or selling the fiber.
“By rewarding firefighters we ensure a constant supply of fires.” (I forget who said that.)
Well, if you install single point failure modes…