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Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 23:07:35 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
"While the FBI scrambles to find a suspect, KIRO Team 7 Investigators went to check out security measures at the Qwest routing station. We walked straight through an unlocked gate, a wide-open door, and then mapped the interior of the building with our hidden camera. Nobody asked for ID or questioned our motives. KIRO Team 7 Investigators then headed to Qwest Corporate Headquarters in downtown Seattle. Ironically, it was lots tougher getting in there." Either the KIRO guys are lying through their teeth, or somebody dropped the ball BIG time. The bio of the guy who wrote it is here;
I wonder has he ever tried walking into the transmission hut next to the tower of a major broadcast television or radio station? Usually when the revolution arrives, the first thing you take over is the television and radio outlets. The reality is there are a lot of weak points everywhere. Remember, part of the Internet design is the assumption that individual points of failure exist everywhere; the goal is to avoid single points of failure. There were (and are) alternate communication paths in the region, and several people pointed out during the last couple of attacks their data centers and Internet connections kept working even while the telephone and cell phones didn't. The quesiton isn't so much how someone cut a fiber strand, but why the failure of a single fiber strand had such an impact on the telephone service in the region.
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)
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- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest JC Dill (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Paul Timmins (Nov 03)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Owen DeLong (Nov 03)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Paul Timmins (Nov 03)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest David Lesher (Nov 03)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Robert M. Enger (Nov 02)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest David Raistrick (Nov 03)