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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Actually the way the fibre system is done may make it a bit harder to attack. Can’t ringbark and alligator clip fibre.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Hughes<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 22, 2013 2:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> Paul Brooks<br><b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Simon Hackett's presentation from Comms Day yesterday - NBN fibre on copper prices<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Ok, so I could have picked a less drastic example :-) However the current copper network isn't exactly impervious to mis-use or deliberate attack.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>David<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>...<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 22/07/2013, at 2:02 PM, Paul Brooks <<a href="mailto:pbrooks@layer10.com.au">pbrooks@layer10.com.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Plus few people will want to deliberately destroy their own broadband access port, it would make the call to customer service "my broadband doesn't work any more" somewhat embarrassing!<o:p></o:p></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jonathan Thorpe <<a href="mailto:jthorpe@Conexim.com.au">jthorpe@Conexim.com.au</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Mon Jul 22 13:41:39 AEST 2013<br><b>To:</b> David Hughes <<a href="mailto:david@hughes.com.au">david@hughes.com.au</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> "<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Simon Hackett's presentation from Comms Day yesterday - NBN fibre on copper prices<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><pre style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Chances are, it will hit an opto-isolator and damage the voice or DSLAM port, but not the entire DSLAM. It's pretty easy to figure out who did what.<br><br>We don't hear of lightning strikes taking out DSLAMs do we?<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: David Hughes [mailto:david@<a href="http://hughes.com.au">hughes.com.au</a>] <br>Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013 1:39 PM<br>To: Jonathan Thorpe<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Simon Hackett's presentation from Comms Day yesterday - NBN fibre on copper prices<br><br><br><br>On 22/07/2013, at 11:41 AM, Jonathan Thorpe <<a href="mailto:jthorpe@conexim.com.au">jthorpe@conexim.com.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #729FCF 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt'><pre>What happens if someone directs a laser pointer (at approximately the correct wavelength) down a GPON fibre interface?<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><pre><br>What's to stop someone lighting up a POTS line with 240v AC at the moment? Mal<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> icious<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>mis-use is always going to be hard to stop or isolate completely. <br><br><br>Thanks<br><br>David<br>...<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></pre><pre><br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><br>-- <br>Sent unplugged<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>