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2008-02-06 Africa North

Okay ~~2, no 3,~~ 4 undersea cables cut is still a coincidence

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Posted by Frank G 2008-02-06 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11146 views ] Top

#1 For the ~~second, third, fourth~~ fifth time in a week

A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each. These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria.
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Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-02-05 21:05|| 2008-02-05 21:05|| Front Page Top

#2 5 is still a coincidence. Nothing to see here. Go about your business, otherwise we'll let the wife know what sites you're visiting, k? hint? baaaahhh

Posted by Halliburton Data Mining Division">Halliburton Data Mining Division 2008-02-05 21:43|| 2008-02-05 21:43|| Front Page Top

#3 So far, nobody has blamed a backhoe for these fades. Probably the work of glass seeking porpoises.

Posted by GK 2008-02-06 01:17|| 2008-02-06 01:17|| Front Page Top

#4 As it stands, traffic from the Middle East and surrounding areas is being routed through various other cables

Satellites targeted, cables cut... I wonder where this could all be heading?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-02-06 03:01|| 2008-02-06 03:01|| Front Page Top

#5 How do they repair this thing? Do they have connectors every mile or something and they just replace the section that's screwed up? Is it one continuous cable and it requires tons of expertise to not cross the wrong wires?

I don't see how tapping it could be useful. How would you get the data shipped to whoever needs to sift through it without running a parallel cable all the way to where it is going to be processed. Even a satellite uplink would be too obvious and (seems to me, anyway) too small.

You'd have to funnel all the traffic to monitored cables and satellites somehow. Isn't the US able to monitor all the cables and satellites already anyway?

Posted by gorb 2008-02-06 04:45|| 2008-02-06 04:45|| Front Page Top

#6 You gave me an idea, gorb. Why indeed WOULD someone cut all these cables, if not to stop data flow, and if tapping - at the cut - was impractical? Camoflage/diversion of attention. Maybe other stuff was happening to those cables elsewhere while attention was focussed on the breaks.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-02-06 07:11|| 2008-02-06 07:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, that's been tossed around a bit. But it still begs the question about how would you get the data from the newly installed tee to where it was being processed? Computers don't work well underwater, and eventually someone will happen across the tee during some maintenance procedure and follow the cable to where it hits land. That's not gonna look good!

Posted by gorb 2008-02-06 07:47|| 2008-02-06 07:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Equally likely this was a warning from China to India that the telephone support / IT industry there could be sabotaged any time Beijing chooses.

Posted by lotp 2008-02-06 07:54|| 2008-02-06 07:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Nah, simply a matter of the warrenty expiring last week. Unless, of course, it could be crab people!

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-02-06 10:57|| 2008-02-06 10:57|| Front Page Top

#10 This just in via Vodkapundit:
Reports are coming in this morning that a fifth undersea fiber optic cable was severed in the Middle East. However, by several accounts, the fifth cable cut is actually a second cut on a different segment of the FALCON cable. How exactly these cables are being cut is still unknown, though Egyptian officials maintain a ship didnt cause the breakages near the port of Alexandria.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-02-06 12:50|| 2008-02-06 12:50|| Front Page Top

#11 It's those crazy dolphin's with the lasers on their heads. There just like kids.

Posted by Delphi 2008-02-06 12:56|| 2008-02-06 12:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Lookin' around for my popcorn popper..... This may turn very interesting soon.

Posted by OyVey1 2008-02-06 13:13|| 2008-02-06 13:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe the Atlantis residents are finally fed up with all this cable laying shit.

Posted by jds 2008-02-06 13:18|| 2008-02-06 13:18|| Front Page Top

#14 One to go.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-02-06 13:20|| 2008-02-06 13:20|| Front Page Top

#15 A aquatic radioactive reptile may be responsible. This is the kind of thing normally seen before he surfaces and takes out a city. You may notice a few boats missing in the Indian ocean as well. Another sign. You have been warned.

Posted by Gojirra 2008-02-06 13:45|| 2008-02-06 13:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Cable virus

Posted by Pholugum Stalin1270 2008-02-06 19:03|| 2008-02-06 19:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Cheap Chinese cable connectors?

Posted by SteveS 2008-02-06 22:41|| 2008-02-06 22:41|| Front Page Top

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