Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:17:21 -0400 From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
If someone sabotages a rail to stop a train and the derailment takes out the fiber that is buried in the right-of-way, is that unintentional sabotage? At least of the fiber?
That's not sabotage at all.
As it relates to the fiber, its not "deliberately and maliciously destroying [fiber]"... unless the goal was to cause a derailment which hurt the train operator both from the operation of the train and subsequent revenues they might lose from fiber operations along the same right-of-way -- then *that* would be sabotage.
In the case you outlined above, barring other motivations, the fiber would be "collateral damage".
That said, Cogent's page says nothing about sabotage (status.cogentco.com) and I can't find the reference on teliasonera's page.... Link please?
Too many people missed the emoticon. Clearly the fiber damage in the case I gave was collateral damage. It would have been sabotage on the rail line and the derailed train. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751