Amid concerns of cybersecurity and cyberwarfare, there is a related security topic that receives far less attention: vulnerabilities of the physical cables that enable telecommunications traffic and the Internet. Journalist Kate Murphy has a good, brief, non-technical analysis of the problem in today’s NYT, “The Cyberthreat Under the Street”(NYT, Sunday Review, November 8, 2015).
Murphy reports that within the last year there have been sixteen “so-called fiber cuts in the San Francisco Bay Area … someone or some group has been going through manholes to sever fiber optic cables that supply telecommunications to the region.” Ominously, following each incident, affected residents “couldn’t make land or mobile calls, not even to 911, or send texts or emails.” The problem, Murphy says, is that when we talk about the Internet, we talk For the full article click here
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