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Re: Fiber cut in SF area

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John A. Kilpatrick)
Thu Apr 9 18:08:04 2009

Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:43:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John A. Kilpatrick" <john@hypergeek.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200904091856.n39IuClx001736@kw.retro.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, George William Herbert wrote:

> "The fiber-optic cables were severed shortly before 1:30 a.m. along Monterey
> Highway north of Blossom Hill Road in south San Jose, police Sgt. Ronnie Lopez
> said."

The fact that it's vandalism is VERY annoying. Sadly it also shows how 
vulnerable we are.  I'm guessing the next Die Hard movie will have the 
baddies cutting fiber trunks before trying to steal the money?

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