[77155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Fri Jan 14 23:13:25 2005
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "'nathan@robotics.net'" <nathan@robotics.net>
Cc: "'somitho@gmail.com'" <somitho@gmail.com>,
"'wsimpson@greendragon.com'" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:12:42 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Nate, customers are not OSP savvy. The ones that could be would be like
you, me, and vin.
Those are few and between.
If I were DHS/FBI/SS? Employee or ex employee involvement. Circa 98
possibly. It is familiar for Boston area transmission.
-M
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Martin Hannigan
hannigan@verisign.com
Verisign, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Allen Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Hannigan, Martin <hannigan@verisign.com>
CC: somitho@gmail.com <somitho@gmail.com>; wsimpson@greendragon.com
<wsimpson@greendragon.com>; nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Fri Jan 14 19:58:04 2005
Subject: Re: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> I know how to cut those cables from experience. A customer isn't showing
up
> with a battery powered Makita to do it. And they don't know where to cut
to
> do max damage. If they were cutting SLC splice boxes, sure. Not this.
IMHO.
> These cuts indicate knowledge. I may be wrong. @shrug@
You have not talked to enough ISPs who have been killed by the ILECs. They
know what to do... I am not defending them in any way, it is wrong, but
they have a lot of customers who have clue to get back at them if they are
ticked off.
-Nathan
