{"id":9333,"date":"2017-09-16T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T16:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/16\/news-3106\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T08:58:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T16:58:27","slug":"news-3106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/16\/news-3106\/","title":{"rendered":"VILLAIN or HERO? A Vandal Cuts Off Internet for Thousands of New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59bc127ccb469953fd46a760\/lede\/1505498032185-Untitled-design.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Samantha  Cole| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:55:06 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Something sinister happened in Brooklyn this morning.<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 550px;\" data-iframely-id=\"Dal1mit\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Spectrum, the company Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications&#8217; rebranded to when they merged last year experienced an outage that impacted a portion Brooklyn Friday. It&#8217;s difficult to say where the outage occurred beyond this tweet, because they won&#8217;t tell me. They did say, however, that &#8220;thousands&#8221; of people lost service.<\/p>\n<p> John Bonomo, a spokesperson for Charter Communications, the <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/pgkanz\/fcc-approves-new-us-broadband-giant-in-charter-time-warner-cable-merger\">company that owns Time Warner<\/a> and its fiber optic cables, sent me this statement: <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Vandalism of Charter&#8217;s fiber-optic network in Brooklyn early this morning has resulted in thousands of customers there losing service. Our repair crews have been working tirelessly I&#8217;m [sic] the past several hours to restore service as quickly as possible. We appreciate our customers&#8217; patience as we do. We are also working with the NYPD on an investigation of this latest round of criminal destruction of our network.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> I called the cops to try to find out more. I tried the 90th Precinct in Williamsburg, where the outage appeared to be centered. There was no answer to any of the extensions I tried. I can only assume they&#8217;re busy serving up justice on the trail of this &#8220;criminal destruction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> After the cops, I called the Time Warner customer service switchboard (after attempting to reach their press contacts directly, with no success) and eventually spoke with a representative who could tell me very little about the issue. There were several areas in Brooklyn that were affected she said, but wouldn&#8217;t divulge specific regions. The dispatch team was on location in the borough, she said, but she wouldn&#8217;t tell me where. She could tell me, however, that a fiber line was cut, and that Time Warner TV, phone and Internet were all impacted.<\/p>\n<p> This isn&#8217;t the first time vandalism has affected Time Warner&#8217;s internet service. Employees went on months-long strike in March of this year, during which fiber cables were cut 106 times total in the Spectrum network, <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7ny.com\/technology\/charges-dropped-against-spectrum-worker-accused-of-cutting-cables\/2213425\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to ABC 7<\/a>, impacting tens of thousands of customers in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>This is the company that brought you a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/nzd39x\/heres-how-time-warner-cable-was-ripping-you-off-all-those-years\">years-long &#8216;systematic scheme&#8217;<\/a> to defraud and mislead consumers by promising internet service that the company knew it could not deliver.&#8221; New Yorkers hate Time Warner so much, it <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/gv5qb4\/how-a-diy-network-plans-to-subvert-time-warner-cables-nyc-internet-monopoly\">brings them together<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/zm3x44\/villain-or-hero-a-vandal-cuts-off-internet-for-thousands-of-new-yorkers\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59bc127ccb469953fd46a760\/lede\/1505498032185-Untitled-design.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Samantha  Cole| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:55:06 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Yorkers hate Time Warner so much, it brings them together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[14834,14832,4314,14833,5846,14831],"class_list":["post-9333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-charter-communications","tag-fiber","tag-internet","tag-time-warner","tag-vandalism","tag-williamsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}