RE: Sabotage not backhoes: More cable cuts

2003-09-17 Thread Justin Shore

Who Broadwing?  Alan Ralsky maybe.  I've had Broadwing's 3 /14s and some
small misc netblocks in my Sendmail reject list for going on two years.  
I can't think of anything worthwhile I've missed. :)

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Winslow, Michael wrote:

> I'm sure they are important to someone
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Justin Shore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:53 PM
> To: Sean Donelan
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Sabotage not backhoes: More cable cuts
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> 
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> At least it's just Broadwing.  I mean it not like it's anybody important 
> anyways...
> 
> Justin
> 
> 



Re: Sabotage not backhoes: More cable cuts

2003-09-17 Thread Justin Shore

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:

> 
> 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.

At least it's just Broadwing.  I mean it not like it's anybody important 
anyways...

Justin



Re: Sabotage not backhoes: More cable cuts

2003-09-14 Thread George William Herbert


>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
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