TRANS Internet cable cut to Sacramento International Airport
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night driver
ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
We really DO appear to be involved in a real war, except WE aren't fighting said war.
night driver
ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
If yer in HIS shoes it's doing GREAT!!!
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Dismember
Just a thought. How was that cable accessed and what level of knowledge was needed for that?
OP needs full content.
Y2KProf
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According to local news, the cable cut was out in the open on telephone poles about a mile away from the airport.
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Dismember
So, not rocket surgery.
psychgirl
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What is the pharmacy thread you’re referring to?
33dInd
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Pharmacies nationwide face delays as health-care tech company reports cyberattack
A leading health-care technology company is experiencing a network outage due to a "cyber security issue," pausing prescription services at pharmacies nationwide.
www.foxbusiness.com
night driver
ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
HEALTH - Yay work made the news: Tens of thousands of pharmacies across America unable to get prescriptions to patients after major cyberattack
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13117877/pharmacies-delay-prescriptions-cyberattack-network-cell-outage.html Tens of thousands of pharmacies across America unable to get prescriptions to patients after major... Emily Joshu, Reuters A cyberattack on America's...
Elza
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Exactly the way they want it to work.
Wildweasel
F-4 Phantoms Phorever
Somebody cut it thinking they were fixing to rip down a copper cable and discovered they'd cut fiber instead?
mikeho78
Contributing Member
Don't forget the bridges and railroads as well as useless "protests" being staged at strategic chokepoints to metropolitan areas to gather info on reaction times and whatever cascading effects disruptions have.
I'm beginning to think the protests are like those traffic surveys with the two black wires.
night driver
ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Anyone who hasn't handled fiber much will RAPIDLY discover it is a stone BITCH to handle.
33dInd
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33dInd
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True that
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Dismember
I think they knew what it was.
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Dismember
Curious? Hard to cut or what?
night driver
ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
The fibers are SO SMALL and SHARP. They get under and in skin with virtually no effort at all. Digging them OUT is a pain since they are VERY BRITTLE
Knighttemplar
Veteran Member
Easy to cut. Lack of proper engineering not having dual feeds on totaly different paths with different suppliers.
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Dismember
Good points. Probably didn’t bother cutter. Guess pruning shears would do the job.
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Dismember
Exactly. Worked in data centers with demarcations from different streets. Buildings would also have two pods, each with separate utility feeds and generators, plus a third set to back up either one failing. Dual UPS feeding dual plug servers. Lightning rods for every piece of equipment on roof, gridded to building steel.
More likely lack of imagination and budget.
Lone_Hawk
Resident Spook
After the chaos of 9/11 I thought all critical infrastructure would have alternates. I know all fed.gov organizations did. Just plain stupid if you ask me.
Profit of Doom
Dismember
TV station I worked for had two satellite feeds, from two different satellites, received on two different dishes, with two different IRDs, feeding a relay held in NC configuration, released by failure of valid signal. Worked quite well for sun outages.
stop tyranny
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Pay no attention it's all part of the plan.
Y2KProf
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Fair use
Travelers at Sacramento International Airport experienced delays Thursday after someone “intentionally” cut fiber optic cables providing internet to the airport, according to a spokesman with the Sacramento County Department of Airports.
An airline notified airport officials that internet service was interrupted just before 1:20 a.m., said Scott Johnston, spokesman for SMF. The wires were sliced outside of airport property and Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies were called to investigate, he said.
“They are investigating it as a crime scene,” Johnston said.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said on social media the damage was “deliberate.” Sgt. Amar Gandhi, a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, did not return a request for comment asking for more information.
The fiber cut appears to be an act of vandalism or attempted theft, Chris Collins, a spokesman for AT&T, wrote in an emailed statement.
Departing flights from Southwest and Delta airlines suffered delays because airport staff could not check in passengers, Johnston said.
Data from FlightAware showed nearly 60 planes from Southwest were delayed; as of noon, roughly 35% of all flights out of Sacramento on Southwest were behind their scheduled departure times. SkyWest, Delta’s regional service, had just one flight delayed.
No flights have been canceled because of the internet outage, according to FlightAware, and the delays ranged from about 10 minutes to around two hours, according to the airport’s website.
deliberately cut about two miles away from the main terminal.
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“We are doing our best ... to get people to their destination,” Johnston said.
AT&T service was restored before lunchtime, according to a social media post by the airport.
“It will take time to continue checking travelers in,” the post said. “Please continue checking with your airline before heading to the airport.”
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Buick Electra
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This is the deep state doing this to prepare us for the BIG outage come election time, so they can claim either Russia or China did this and can cancel the election.
Doc1
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If the photo in post 33 is actually of the cut fiber cable, it looks like the idiots thought they were cutting down a tree! They should've /could've just used a battery powered circular saw and cut straight through the protective sheath.
As I've noted in these pages several times in the past, the US doesn't really have a terrorist problem. The country is so vast and the infrastructure targets are so plentiful (and unprotected) that real, trained terrorists could shut down huge regions overnight, if they had a mind to.
Trained terrs could make explosives and incendiaries from scratch, but even without going to that much trouble, someone who knew what they were doing could wreak havoc with just a scoped rifle or a five gallon can of gasoline or diesel.
Virtually none of America's electrical transmission lines are protected and local distribution wires are less so. A basic high-powered rifle can easily cut wires from a distance or hole transformers, yet we rarely if ever see this. Ask any local lineman or tech with the phone or power company and they'll tell you that the worst they ever see is -perhaps - some kid with a .22 shooting at wires or insulators.
Anyone whose spent time in the marshes of southern Texas or Louisiana will have seen countless - unprotected - oil and gas pipelines snaking their way through the marsh grass. All easy targets. Want more? There are many unmanned gas compressor stations and oil pumping stations throughout the region. They run 24/7 and only see a human if there's a problem. Similarly, there are countless unmanned oil and gas rigs sitting offshore in the Gulf.
You'll frequently see sports fishermen and scuba divers tied up to these rigs. It's not much of a stretch to imagine terrs equipped by their local scuba shop having everything they need to take out these rigs. Similarly, the US has endless miles of unprotected railway lines and tunnels. Some of these, the more critical ones, if taken out would create huge bottlenecks for both civilian and military transport.
We all saw what happened when a ship hit an important bridge in Baltimore and collapsed it. This was either an accident or a brilliant bit of terrorism, but if it was an accident you can be sure that Ameica's enemies are studying it carefully and are ready to replicate it in our ports. And speaking of ports, there are countless - again, unprotected - ships throughout the country which would be easy targets.
I'm not going to even begin to address the vulnerabilities of America's urban areas. The list would be endless, but my point is that we aren't seeing a rash of terrorist attacks and if any of the bad guys wanted to do so, it would be very easy.
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Doc
As I've noted in these pages several times in the past, the US doesn't really have a terrorist problem. The country is so vast and the infrastructure targets are so plentiful (and unprotected) that real, trained terrorists could shut down huge regions overnight, if they had a mind to.
Trained terrs could make explosives and incendiaries from scratch, but even without going to that much trouble, someone who knew what they were doing could wreak havoc with just a scoped rifle or a five gallon can of gasoline or diesel.
Virtually none of America's electrical transmission lines are protected and local distribution wires are less so. A basic high-powered rifle can easily cut wires from a distance or hole transformers, yet we rarely if ever see this. Ask any local lineman or tech with the phone or power company and they'll tell you that the worst they ever see is -perhaps - some kid with a .22 shooting at wires or insulators.
Anyone whose spent time in the marshes of southern Texas or Louisiana will have seen countless - unprotected - oil and gas pipelines snaking their way through the marsh grass. All easy targets. Want more? There are many unmanned gas compressor stations and oil pumping stations throughout the region. They run 24/7 and only see a human if there's a problem. Similarly, there are countless unmanned oil and gas rigs sitting offshore in the Gulf.
You'll frequently see sports fishermen and scuba divers tied up to these rigs. It's not much of a stretch to imagine terrs equipped by their local scuba shop having everything they need to take out these rigs. Similarly, the US has endless miles of unprotected railway lines and tunnels. Some of these, the more critical ones, if taken out would create huge bottlenecks for both civilian and military transport.
We all saw what happened when a ship hit an important bridge in Baltimore and collapsed it. This was either an accident or a brilliant bit of terrorism, but if it was an accident you can be sure that Ameica's enemies are studying it carefully and are ready to replicate it in our ports. And speaking of ports, there are countless - again, unprotected - ships throughout the country which would be easy targets.
I'm not going to even begin to address the vulnerabilities of America's urban areas. The list would be endless, but my point is that we aren't seeing a rash of terrorist attacks and if any of the bad guys wanted to do so, it would be very easy.
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Doc
100 barely trained bodies could shut the country down.
How many are already here?
From how many different countries that are our enemy?
medic38572
TB Fanatic
And you forgot they are paying them to be here!
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
How's that secured infrastructure working out for you guys?