[outages] fibre cut near 200 Paul, San Francisco

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Thu Apr 9 20:17:32 EDT 2009


Aaron Glenn wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Bill Wichers <billw at waveform.net> wrote:
>> Yeah, I read that and my first thought was "just what we need, people
>> *explaining* how to cause problems".
>>
>> I've never been a big fan of publicizing detailed fiber route maps
>> though, I guess this just gives me more reasons to make that argument...
> 
> who needs detailed fiber maps when you can have the 1-800-DIG people
> come out and spray paint the important routes for you?
> people who want to destroy things will figure out how to destroy them.
> hack saw, gasoline, or otherwise.
> 

Even easier: walk down the street and look for anything visibly marked 
with bright orange. Or look in manholes marked as telcom for the same. 
It's likely to be fiber.

~Seth



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