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South Bay Outage Points To Vulnerability of Communications Network
Not exactly a newsflash, but did you know that our phone and internet infrastructure operates on "a wing and a prayer?" Yes, with a snip of a few wires, as some vandals/"terrorists" did yesterday, communications --including 911 calls -- to entire densely populated regions can be totally disabled!
The culprits aren't known, but now AT&T is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the guilty parties, who, for all we know, were a couple of clever teens or Al Qaeda operatives.
Service has been restored to the three affected counties (Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito), but holy shit, guys! The San Jose Police Chief is saying, "I pity the individuals who have done this," but Jesus... maybe we should be pitying, and worrying for, ourselves for not having locked up these wires a little better after that messy situation in September, 2001.