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Can't test for everything, but seeing this is the most significant outage in ages, I'd say they're doing a damned good job. I mean, after all, the internet's t
by awalton 8y ago
Can't test for everything, but seeing this is the most significant outage in ages, I'd say they're doing a damned good job.
I mean, after all, the internet's true natural predator still lurks, its yellow CAT steel present across all of the nation...
I speak of course, of Backhoes.
(1): https://www.wired.com/2006/01/the-backhoe-a-real-cyberthreat/ https://www.wired.com/2006/01/the-backhoe-a-real-cyberthreat...
(2): https://it.slashdot.org/story/06/01/19/1643215/the-backhoe-the-internets-natural-enemy https://it.slashdot.org/story/06/01/19/1643215/the-backhoe-t...
(3): https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fiber%20Seeking%20Backhoe https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fiber%20Seek...
- baud147258 8y agoI heard a story from the construction company (not int US) where my brother is working: on a construction site, they had to dig in an area with fiber. So they called the telco, aking them to disconnect the cables so they could start digging. But the telco was late and a few days later, fed up by the delay (and associated costs), the site manager said "start digging, we'll deal with the fallout". So the backhoe start digging and cut the cables. The telco were quick to send a guy after that...
- hinkley 8y agoI knew a guy who was the head of networking for a university. His biggest rant was that the fine structure for cutting a line made it cheaper to cross their fingers than to wait for someone to mark the exact location of the cables so they could dig.
- paulie_a 8y agoOr also known has backhoe fade