Some simply chop cables in ducts, others pour in petrol and set 'the whole lot alight'

Jones told The Register that attacks range from simply chopping through fiber-optic cables in an underground duct, to lifting the cover of an access chamber, pouring in petrol, and setting the whole lot alight.

The motives for these attacks are thought to be simply vandalism or people with a grudge against a particular provider, rather than being a case of network operators aiming to sabotage their rivals, Jones claimed.

“You find instances where a chamber containing equipment for multiple providers has been accessed, but only one provider has been attacked,” he said, adding that it could be ex-employees with a grudge and that some attacks have even been 5G protesters simply targeting any digital infrastructure.

  • allywilson@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    It’s the best characteristic of English, I think. It’s alive, it changes and we do very little to prevent that from happening (unlike French or German).

    • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      You do so little that the spelling and phonetics of words have been drifting apart for couple centuries and nobody cares. Then people who only speak English think every language is as a Frankenstein monster as much as English.