AT&T had an outage yesterday morning in the bay area due to fiber optical cables being cut. This didn’t just affect landlines but cell phones as well. Rafe describes the dangers hackers would face in trying to cut those cables. We also estimate the distance to New York as 12 worms, and give a plus-five holy avenger sword salute to Dave Arneson.

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