Sabotage not backhoes: More cable cuts

Sun Sep 14 21:10:33 UTC 2003

>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
gherbert at retro.com