Posted on 04/23/2009 11:23:55 AM PDT by JGalt2009
Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes serving the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city. Its implications, though startling, have gone almost un-reported.
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(Excerpt) Read more at perens.com ...
maybe we can go back to SW too
A practice run maybe?
im still using my mobile & base station cb rigs...
Realizing that they’d need more two-way radio, authorities dispatched police to wake up the emergency coordinator of the regional ham radio club, and escort him to the community hospital with his equipment. Area hams dispatched ambulances and doctors, arranged for essential supplies, and relayed emergency communications out of the area to those with working telephones.
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I need a new hobby.
Worth a read. Makes you wonder what if.....
We loose land line and cell phone communication for a day or 4 during winter storms. Local radio station even flooded out one year. We got reports of giant debris rafts coming down the river by listening to CB.
A generator powered Dish TV gave us helicopter views of our area.
An aquaintence got a sat phone in preparation for a predicted 9 earthquake
We're highly dependent on these centralized communications that can be easily disrupted.
People need to consider what they would do if this type of thing happened on a widespread basis.
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Old story. The cable cuts were actually in San Jose and San Carlos. The area effected was around Morgan hill.
The most likely perpetrators are members of the CWA who are in contract negotiations with AT&T at this time.
Sorry.. I searched around to see if someone had posted this before – but didn’t find anything so I thought I would bring it up anyways.
The articles does make some good points about how our communications infrastructure is vulnerable – no matter what the cause.
We would have the same chaos if this had been done by terrorists or whatever.
The silver lining is that this should alert people to the danger – what would happen if this occurred in conjunction to another type of attack?
I ain’t entirely convinced it wasn’t a US government-sponsored test.
I was leaning towards the ham radio.
The ham looks good, but look at the shrimp platter that couple's having! I think I'll have that!
I believe the CWA is the major reason there is no longer a manufacturing division of AT&T.
How about some cheese?
It was a totally different article and well worth posting but the author of this one doesn’t point out that the probable cause of the outage was labor trouble.
I agree with you regarding the vulnerability of the infrastructure. In the Bay Area the place I’ve always thought was vulnerable is on the CalTrain commuter tracks where both AT&T and Verizon fiber run exposed through the same rail tunnel just north of the SF Chron’s printing plant.
Actually AT&T’s chips and test equipment group got spun off as Agilent and the PBX and network components groups became Lucent, which later split into Lucent, Avaya and Exponets. This was supposedly in order to fend off anti trust allegations.
I don’t know about Agilent but the CWA still represented Avaya and Lucent workers last time I checked. Exponets is dead, their remains bought by Avaya for $1000.
No one even mentioned EMP, that’s a whole other can of worms.
Anyways, Thank you for your comments
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