Ukrainian soldiers armed with scissors say they cut any fiber-optic drone cable they see — even if it might be their own

Ukrainian troops cut fiber-optic drone wires they find — even at the risk of disabling their own — to stop Russian attacks.
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FBI Hunts SF Bay Area Fiber-Optic Cable Cutters

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation for the past year has been on the hunt for people slashing fiber-optic cables throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The FBI called for the public’s ...
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Infrastructure under attack: Thieves looking for copper cut fiber lines, knocking customers offline

Authorities link recent internet outages to the rising price of copper, even though the lines being damaged are not made of that material. In Johnston County, someone stole nearly 100 feet of fiber ...

The world's first transatlantic fiber cable is being pulled off the ocean floor

TAT-8 was the eighth Trans-Atlantic Telephone system and the first to replace copper transmission with single-mode optical fiber between the United States, the United Kingdom, and ...