Also, from Rudolf:
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> From: "Rudolf van der Berg" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [net-econ] Attack on French vital infrastructures
> Date: July 30, 2024 at 14:10:48 GMT+2
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> A quick copy paste from something I wrote on a Dutch site. Google translated
> it
>
> Update: photos of broken cables
> https://x.com/nguillam/status/1817870929520677023
>
> A better source is Numerama. They also link to a number of twitter accounts
> of serious people in the French internet world who know what's going on.
> https://www.numerama.com/...-sur-votre-connexion.html
> <https://www.numerama.com/tech/1781538-le-reseau-de-fibre-optique-francais-victime-dun-sabotage-dans-la-nuit-quel-impact-sur-votre-connexion.html>
>
> The affected cables are in 6 areas across the country: 11 (Aude), 34
> (Hérault), 51 (Marne), 55 (Meuse), 13 (Bouches du Rhône) and 84 (Vaucluse).
> They seem to be mainly cables from the French operator SFR, which other
> operators, such as Free, OVH, Bouygues also use. The social effects seem to
> be limited. The traffic seems to be rerouted. The alternative route is
> sometimes not ideal, for example there are traceroutes that show that OVH to
> Orange seems to run via Singapore.
> https://x.com/BoolKiRool/status/1817819378395570206
>
> Downdetector does show that there is an impact, but it does not seem that
> large banks and other social services have been badly affected.
>
> Something similar happened 2 years ago, but the locations are not the same.
> There were speculations at the time that it could have been extremists
> (left/right), union members or angry employees. It remains unclear who they
> really were. So I would not dare to speculate now about who did this. In any
> case, France has often seen strange sabotage of telecom infrastructure,
> sometimes done by competing technicians from telcos! Monks have even been
> arrested for setting fire to masts.
>
> (I know some people in the French Internet scene and have been in contact
> with them about this)
>
> Op di 30 jul 2024 om 09:15 schreef Jaap van Till via groups.io
> <http://groups.io/> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Not only the high speed TGV train infrastructure was attacked by fires ? at
>> several places at the same time, claimed by extreme leftwing people. But
>> also certain carefully selected optic fiber cables where cut all over France.
>> Not much was published about that though. In the press they only mentioned
>> that in certain “departements”(provinces) Internet access was unavailable,
>> but that it worked fine in Paris region.
>> I hope this habit will not spread among political activists, because it can
>> endanger lives.
>>
>> My focus is on “Creating Value by Combining” 🧐😊🤓😁 Van Till’s Law :
>> 4th Networking Effect: V= N! Value created by Cooperation = N unique
>> contributors, Factorial. ( Multiplication of shared value).
>>
>>
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