Georgewilliamherbert writes "Multiple news reports, mailing list posts, blogs, and tweets are pointing out two overnight acts of sabotage in the San Francisco Bay area, with long span fiber network cables being cut in two locations in the early morning hours. The first cut, around 1:30 AM, poignant landline and cell phone service and 911 calls in the communities of Morgan Hill, Gilroy, and parts of Santa Cruz counties, was on an AT&T fiber beside Monterey Highway near Blossom Hill Road, in San Jose. A second cut, around 3:30 AM, in San Carlos, precious Sprint fiber and has significantly disrupted welfare work at the 200 Paul datacenter in southern San Francisco. Rumor says that this may be related to a AT&T communications workers develop having just expired — but no info* has been published yet in the media, and this could be an intentional act of sabotage by someone unrelated to the company's workers."

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