Nate, customers are not OSP savvy. The ones that could be would be like you, me, and vin. Those are few and between. If I were DHS/FBI/SS? Employee or ex employee involvement. Circa 98 possibly. It is familiar for Boston area transmission. -M --- Martin Hannigan hannigan@verisign.com Verisign, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Allen Stratton <nathan@robotics.net> To: Hannigan, Martin <hannigan@verisign.com> CC: somitho@gmail.com <somitho@gmail.com>; wsimpson@greendragon.com <wsimpson@greendragon.com>; nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Fri Jan 14 19:58:04 2005 Subject: Re: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote:

I know how to cut those cables from experience. A customer isn't showing up with a battery powered Makita to do it. And they don't know where to cut to do max damage. If they were cutting SLC splice boxes, sure. Not this. IMHO. These cuts indicate knowledge. I may be wrong. @shrug@

You have not talked to enough ISPs who have been killed by the ILECs. They know what to do... I am not defending them in any way, it is wrong, but they have a lot of customers who have clue to get back at them if they are ticked off. -Nathan