Re: Sabotage not backhoes: More cable cuts

[George William Herbert <gherbert () retro com>]

> Someone climbed a 15-foot tower in Southern Arizona cutting a fiber optic
> cable used by Broadwing and Tucson Electric Power.  This was within five
> feet of the 138,000-volt power line.  The site was also guarded by barbed
> wire.
>
> This is not your typical backhoe.
>
> Rural areas have long dealt with the occasional shotgun damaged cable or
> microwave horn; or the farmer burying the dead cow in the back pasture.
> But I don't recall two reported acts of sabotage in less than 30 days
> before.
>
> http://www.fox11az.com/news/local/stories/KMSB_local_fiberoptic_091203.9d8bc6ae.html

Is there *anyone* systematically looking at the impact of physical
security on network links and datacenters?

A lot of people make noise about it, but I haven't seen any
changes even since 9/11 which would make penetration exercises
any less likely to succeed (and, presumably, actual hostile
activity were there to be such).


-george william herbert
gherbert () retro com