New cable cut compounds net woes

[Nihil]

Source: BBC


> A third marine cable has been snapped, compounding global net woes
> caused by two broken lines on Wednesday.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7222536.stm

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Oops?

[tularetom]

1. Just as long as they don't break any of the tubes it's OK

[CatholicEdHead]

13. We can just send the trucks underwater to deliver the data

/Senator Stevens

;)

[smiley_glad_hands]

2. Maybe this will cause US Co.s to stop sending jobs to India.

Doubt it though.

[liberal N proud]

5. We could only hope

But the ones making those decisions don't even realize the infrastructure required to do it.
They just order the outsourcing and then yell when it doesn't get done on time.

[Lasher]

3. Maybe the whales are fighting back.

But it was most likely a ship dragging an anchor, like the story suggests.

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. Maybe I'm a paranoid but I have to guess that we...........

(our military) had something to do with it.

[liberal N proud]

6. Keeping us from reading news from over seas?

Or keeping overseas readers from reading our propaganda?



Anything is possible


Wait, I know it was terrorist.

[lurky]

7. 3 cables in as many days?

Yeah, sounds fishy. All three cables serve the middle east, so I have to wonder if US or Israel is preparing for something... :tinfoilhat:

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. My thoughts exactly.

Who knows what strategic info moves through those lines.

[aquart]

9. The evil Jews snapped the undersea cables?

Dear me, look where your mind leaped. Hope you don't fall and hurt yourself.

[lurky]

10. I suppose you think Obama did it.

I said the US or Israel, if you had bothered reading all the words in my sentence. In case you haven't noticed, both Bush and Olmert have been maneuvering to attack Iran for some time now. A common prelude to military attack is to knock out communications for the target. If a few other countries lose their internet too, then so be it. Who else has the resources and the motivation to knock out deep sea cables that are 1000 miles apart?

I see your posts everywhere, and I can't remember a single one that wasn't an attack or flame-bait. I guess it's time to put you on ignore. Buh-bye! :hi:

[Wcross]

19. I had the same thought.

One time it is understandable. The second time it is a freak occurance. The third????????

[Android3.14]

11. Definitely suspicious

So we ask the question, what are the effects, what group would gain advantage from the effects, and how would that group use that advantage?

Are the cut cables diversions to install a huge data siphoning system like our government placed in AT&T offices, or are they a diversion to cover up a defensive move when a group discovered such a system was already on the cable?

[Sultana]

12. damn!

No wonder I've been unable to chat with friends in the Middle East. x(

[appleannie1]

14. Hard to think this is an accident. Maybe one, not three

[dbt]

15. Kinked and wreck-o-mended

just because it's all a coincidence and there's nothing to see here so move along. Yeah, that's it. Move along...

:evilgrin:

[maddezmom]

16. Internet disruptions will last another 10 days: Egypt

Internet disruptions will last another 10 days: Egypt 2 minutes ago



CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian Internet disruption caused by damage to undersea cables will last another 10 days, the ministry of communications and information technology said on Saturday.

"Disruptions to the Internet network will continue for at least another 10 days," a statement carried by the official MENA news agency said.

A repair ship was expected early Tuesday to begin work to fix the two cables in the Mediterranean Sea. They were damaged on Wednesday, rupturing connections not only in Egypt but also thousands of kilometres (miles) away.

"Around 55 percent of the internet network is now up and running," the statement said, after emergency teams were formed to find alternative connection routes.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080202/wl_mideast_afp/egyptinternet_080202145745;_ylt=Ajjppu2BQCNV2Z.mV1cFv3KaOrgF

[Sultana]

18. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

:o

that's all :D

[bemildred]

17. What an unfortunate series of coincidences. nt

[Xenotime]

20. As long as I don't lose access to DU I am ok

[gulfcoastliberal]

21. Where's the USS Jimmy Carter?

I heard they use that submarine to tap into undersea cables.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter

[belab13]

22. Global Internet Traffic - 100% packet loss to Tehran

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

keep in mind this isn't the whole country.