Sabotage, the bad kind

[ritaxis]

Before dawn today somebody cut eight fiber optic cables serving land lines and cell phones in the areas around San Jose (and incidentally, Santa Cruz). The effect was massive: ATM machines and emergency services were also cut off. Also, no internet. No email.

It meant that lots of people in our area couldn't even call an ambulance.

On my part, I didn't get the car to the vet the last few days and it ran out of charge again, this time for no reason at all. Also, I haven't seen my cell phone in five days.

Comments

[tavella.livejournal.com]

That's what makes me nervous. The stories were calling it 'vandalism', and I was thinking 'uh, no, vandalism is maybe trashing one cable by peeing in the connection box'. Sawing through multiple cables, in sites that most people wouldn't even know about? That's a serious attack, and makes you wonder what someone is testing out.

[brooksmoses]

Indeed; I'm really surprised that nobody was calling it "terrorism".

And, I guess, also a bit glad they weren't.

[julesjones]

When I checked the newspaper reports about what had happened, it was very clear this wasn't casual vandalism. Possibly vandalism by someone who knew exactly what they were doing, i.e. a novel method of going postal, but not likely to be the act of a bunch of bored teenagers.