WHATEVER YOU DO, NEVER, EVER CUT THE BLACK WIRE

[defrog]

ITEM: Threat Level’s Kim Zetter tells the one about how a a construction crew working on an office building in Virginia in 2000 cut a fiber optic cable that wasn’t on anyone’s map. Turns out it was a ‘black line’ used for carrying secret intelligence data.

Within minutes of cutting the cable, three black SUV’s pulled up carrying men in suits who complained that their line was severed...

AT&T crews arrived the same day to fix the line, an unusually prompt response. When AT&T tried to bill the construction company $300,000, the company balked and the charges “just disappeared.” ...

The cut occurred in the Tysons Corner region, where the neighbors include the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center. The Central Intelligence Agency is a few miles away.

I have no idea why this story is being told nine years after the fact. So I can’t swear it’s true.

But it’s a great story anyway.

Cut off,

This is dF

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[jasonfranks.livejournal.com]

See, if that happened in Australia it would immediately be suspicious.

"We found fibre? What the fuck is this?"

-- JF