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I wonder if it was actually a warning. You know, somebody trying to point out just how easy it would be to bring it all down. It seems they could have made it a lot worse beyond just cutting the cables. Cutting them followed by torching the place would have made it a lot more difficult to repair.


More than likely AT&T made someone redundant in the previous 6 months or having some industrial dispute at the time rather than any practise for a net centric 'terrorist' attack. Something like the company IT specialist getting made redundant who then requests an 'A' record re-point to 74.125.65.104 together with an 'MX' record repoint to some notorious exchange server in Kazakhstan. Sometimes it amazes me how long it can take your average SME business just to figure out how to fix the problem or even realise that there is one.