In mid-august, Drew Fitzgerald with, the Wall Street Journal reported on a number of malicious fiber optic cable cuts in the San Francisco area. These incidents can influenced bandwidth speeds and communication activities as mundane as Amazon purchases or more importantly 911 call routing. Case after case of these types of activities are reported each, day, month and year. So many so, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been brought in to help track patterns and resolve issues in these attacks.