Chinese state-linked hacking group 'leak'

[guyfriday]

At the risk of diluting the thread I offer one more source relating to "in light of the cyber attacks" angle to this story...

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

I wonder if this is "opportunistic journalism," or can it truly be said that landlines were among the few defenses against total decimation of the infosphere?  We seem hell bent on allowing ourselves to be completely dependent on 'wireless' tech with centralized access points.

Land lines have their pros and cons. but in the era of cyber-HACKing and the lost art of actual line tapping. Land lines might be a good idea. I have an old shed on the back side of my property that has a line running to the house. It's a great system to get ahold me if I'm out that side of things. Sometimes (as has been seen with Short-wave Radio) the older ways are becoming the best ways again.