Someone climbed a 15-foot tower in Southern Arizona cutting a fiber optic cable used by Broadwing and Tucson Electric Power. This was within five feet of the 138,000-volt power line. The site was also guarded by barbed wire.

This is not your typical backhoe.

Rural areas have long dealt with the occasional shotgun damaged cable or microwave horn; or the farmer burying the dead cow in the back pasture. But I don't recall two reported acts of sabotage in less than 30 days before.

http://www.fox11az.com/news/local/stories/KMSB_local_fiberoptic_091203.9d8bc...

Is there *anyone* systematically looking at the impact of physical security on network links and datacenters? A lot of people make noise about it, but I haven't seen any changes even since 9/11 which would make penetration exercises any less likely to succeed (and, presumably, actual hostile activity were there to be such). -george william herbert gherbert@retro.com