North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Sabotage not backhoes: More cable cuts
>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 [email protected]
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