On Monday 29 October 2001 12:51, George Heuston wrote: > Telecommunications - The Honolulu Advertiser reports that a Verizon > telephone worker accidentally cut a fiber cable in Kalihi, Hawaii on 28 > October, setting off a chain reaction that resulted in the most > widespread phone failure in the Islands in recent years. About 120,000 > telephone customers in Kalihi and Kailua had sporadic service for more > than seven hours. On Maui, 80,000 Verizon customers could not make > off-island calls, and often even local calls would not go. First > Hawaiian Bank's ATM system came down, as well as the 911 system. Some > sectors were restored to service fairly rapidly, however, the total > outage lasted 7 hours. (Source: Honolulu Advertiser, 29 October) "Denial of Service by back-hoe" is not new or all that uncommon. It happens every once in a while. It is why concentration of data communications into choke points is a bad idea. Unfortunately, choke points will increase because the people doing the planning are favoring tapability over reliability in the current situation. Just goes to show that the people making policy do not read RISKS.
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