I think it was 2009, someone cut fibers in the South San Francisco and San Jose areas the same night that disrupted 911 traffic and the internet. As someone who used to work for AT&T, this bothered me as even us workers would not know which fibers and what locations and what kind of circuits they would be one to do such an act. The individual(s) who did this would have to have circuit information, cable maps, and engineering records. And they would need other knowledge because the cables were cut in manholes. Certain manholes have “dead air” in them, meaning unless you have purged them with air blowers you could die due to lack of oxygen. So an individual would have to wear some kind of breathing apparatus. And the manholes were both in places that were dark and not covered with any security or video cameras. So the area would have had to have been carefully checked out. So this was a complicated attack. I don’t know who has the time, money, expertise and patience to do that. Unless it was something done by a foreign actor or our own agencies.
Correct.
That is what this article sort of exposes too. Whoever these chatter groups are, have the maps etc.
It really is surprising that they have let this stuff hit main stream media, but anything is possible.
You make a convincing argument for an inside job, though.
Excellent investigative thinking.
It would not surprise if an agency or two, every now and then, did some real world s-—t right here in CONUS. Training and simulated cities, and computer simulations can only teach so much. Nothing perfects a technique quite like actually doing it a time or two.