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Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 20:38:50 -0500 (EST)
KIRO TV has a report concerning the fiber cuts targeting a particular fiber route in the Northwest US. It has been been disrupted four times in the last two years, not by backhoes, but by someone entering a fiber hut. North Sound 911 Service Repeatedly Targeted by Chris Halsne KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Investigative Reporter [...] This person hasn't been randomly chopping entire bundles of cables, but rather he or she is using surgical precision to black out one particular 911 emergency call center. Early in the morning of Sept. 3, some criminal strolled into a Qwest Telecommunications server station with tools in hand and carefully sliced one strand of wire. [...] Operators couldn't help but feel a sense of dj vu. KIRO Team 7 Investigators have learned that someone intentionally rerouted, cut or altered 911 service to Whatcom County on three occasions in two years. Each time the criminal entered the same Qwest fiber optics "hut" to create the chaos. [...] http://www.kirotv.com/news/2601577/detail.html
Current thread:
- Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Sean Donelan (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Robert M. Enger (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest John Osmon (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Gregory Hicks (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Sean Donelan (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest John Brown (CV) (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Vincent J. Bono (Nov 03)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Robert M. Enger (Nov 02)