[conspire] Someone doesn't like the Bay Area's fiber optic cables

[Rick Moen]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/30/california-internet-outage/29521335/

  The FBI is investigating at least 11 physical attacks on high-capacity
  Internet cables in California's San Francisco Bay Area dating back a
  year, including one early Tuesday morning. [...]

  FBI agents declined to specify how significantly the attack affected
  customers, citing the ongoing investigation. In Tuesday's attack,
  someone broke into an underground vault and cut three fiber-optic cables
  belonging to Colorado-based service providers Level 3 and Zayo. [...]

Zayo is what used to be called Above.net, a major player.

  In April 2009, underground fiber-optic cables in California were cut
  at four sites, knocking out landlines, cell phones and Internet service
  for tens of thousands in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito
  counties. [...]

Interesting, eh?  I remember the 2009 incident.  The site where that
occurred was a vault with very little monitoring -- which has now been
remedied.