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The power of blogging and HN. Asus or my ISP didn't tell me why my router/internet went out twice today. I honestly thought thieves stole my copper again:

https://news.yahoo.com/rise-copper-theft-officials-concerned...



I love when thieves are trying to steal copper, but all they get is a broken fiber optic ;)

My dad works as a network engineer, and he told me a story that one of the banks in Poland lost one of the internet providers. They investigated and found out that thieves stole hundreds of meters of a fiber cable, because they thought that it's copper.


Don't they typically have co-extruded copper in the conduit/pipes for Utility Locators to use, even if it's just fiber inside?


that sounds like so much fun for all involved


and brought it back in between? :D


Maybe they were spotted by the police and had to pretend they're there installing the wires so they don't get caught.


again?




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