As I read the outage blog people are just mad because of no service only one guy said this could be a cyber attack. Look if our enemies can practice and see what they can knock out but one day we could have a huge outage across the board. We would be in the dark with a billion screaming chinamen coming at us!

People only think about no tv and how much they pay for cable when they should be seeing what may be behind the curtain.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/02/15/comcast-outage-support-network/

This map show areas that had areas with outages.

Medclinician

“We’re continuing to investigate what appears to be a temporary network interruption that impacted some of our services this morning. Our engineers have been working on this and services are starting to be restored. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused our customers.”

Comcast

we lost cable at our Diner today for about 40 minutes but our phone worked

As we were discussing with our"techie people" in Silicon Valley, hackers, terrorists, thieves, and so forth are becoming more efficient. They are evolving. If they want to harvest identities, credit card numbers, vital information, they are going to hit "big databases". The days of personal vendetta hacking, even "do it for the thrill" hacking are being replaced by do it to make money.

Now they pick a large chain of supermarkets, high profile banks, and they are practicing. It is no big secret that in the Middle East we did a lot more damage with a "virus" messing up centrifuges of nuclear bomb developing nations than with all our threats or lack of military force.

There are three massive targets I have been ranting about for almost a decade. The power grid, the infrastructure and health by bioweapons and finally - the Internet.

The government is addicted to the net. They replaced the use of paper for the most part and migrated to PDFs and if our net goes down, we are going to suffer a communication hit as well as Anarchy as people riot in the streets.

They will you know. When little Celeste or Jo Bob can't text their friends and the lesson plans are lost, the air traffic controllers flip out as generators fail and law enforcement has some real issues as stoplights don't even blink anymore and looters start sacking stores... it will hit the fan and well... Comcast is a prime target.

As much as I hate seeing the Geico Gecko Lizard and hearing Flo singing for Progressive insurance, I would more than miss my net. China - Russia - and especially Chechnya are putting together serious cyber task forces that have targeted and are developing ways to take down the net.

My biggest concern is that "they are practicing" and Comcast was a trial run for a much bigger operation in the near future.

Medclinician