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For those of you living and/or working in the NYC metro area, Reuters reports that: [snip] Cellular phone service has been shut off in four busy New York commuter tunnels since last week's deadly blasts in London, officials said on Monday. No specific reason was given for the move but cell phones have been used to trigger bombs in the past. Cell phone service is disabled in the Holland and Lincoln tunnels that connect Manhattan to New Jersey under the Hudson River, the Midtown Tunnel to the city's Queens borough and the Battery Tunnel to Brooklyn, officials said. The move came immediately after the bombings in London on Thursday, said a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees operation of the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. [snip] http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2005-07-11T181623Z_01_N11494917_RTRIDST_0_TECH-SECURITY-CELLPHONES-DC.XML - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [email protected] or [email protected] ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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