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FBI Still Doesn’t Know Who’s Cutting California’s Fiber-Optic Cables, Or Why

FBI Still Doesn’t Know Who’s Cutting California’s Fiber-Optic Cables, Or Why

There’s a bad problem hitting the internet out west: someone’s been deliberately slicing through the cables that carry data between providers. And after looking into it for months, the FBI still has basically no idea who’s doing the damage or why. While everyone worries about high-tech hack attacks taking down networks, the attacks highlight that all it really takes is one determined person with a couple of cheap tools. [More]