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Charter: Missouri Network Damage Was Domestic Terrorism

Charter Communications says growing incidences of deliberate damage to its network in Missouri constitute domestic terrorism. It said Monday it has seen 148 outages in the state so far this year due to attacks on its network -- a 200%…

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year-over-year increase. Charter said 28 states, including Missouri, have passed legislation making attacks on critical communications infrastructure a felony offense, with 11 this year. The cable ISP also labeled June network damage in California domestic terrorism (see 2507010014).