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barney


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Our Internet Infrastructure Runs on a Wire and a Prayer
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Interesting article:


The fiber-optic outage—actually sabotage—in the Bay Area on Thursday reveals a dirty little secret: Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable and it only takes a few vandals (or terrorists) to bring communication to its knees.

While it’s unclear what exactly happened, AT&T is offering a $100,000 now $250,000 reward to find the vandals that cut into fiber optic wires and whacked everything from hosting centers—including a few of our own—911 calls and other communication (Techmeme). Sam said it best: No matter how advanced we get we’re still hooked up to a big wire somewhere.

That’s not going to change. The big question: How are we going to protect those big wires?

Internet Infrastructure is Weak

-- Edited by barney on Saturday 11th of April 2009 10:02:24 AM

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