Steve,

Not sure of if you saw this story, and it may not be anything, but it did seem worth mentioning. Below is a direct quote from the Wall Street Journal article, dated Aug. 12, 2015:


“The Federal Bureau of Investigation says San Francisco’s Bay Area has suffered more than a dozen attacks on its fiber optic infrastructure over the past year. The attacks slow Internet service and disrupt financial transactions and emergency phone calls. The way the cuts are clustered on single nights around the East Bay and in San Jose, Calif., at the heart of Silicon Valley, have led officials to believe the attacks are intentional.”

This is especially troubling, if one recalls the story from last year, in the same general vicinity (again, quoting from the W.S.J., dated February 5, 2014 ):

“…someone slipped into an underground vault not far from a busy freeway and cut telephone cables. Within half an hour, snipers opened fire on a nearby electrical substation. Shooting for 19 minutes, they surgically knocked out 17 giant transformers that funnel power to Silicon Valley.”

Following are links to both articles.

Keep up the good work,

~Professor Wood

Aug 15, 2015