3 Internet Trunk-Lines Cut

[Lemon law]

In modern war, disrupting enemy communications and surprise are two effective tactics. But
to postulate these severed cables are a precursor to such a war now loses some sniff test potency because we are days into this and no war yet. And in a week or so repairs will be nearing completion.

 

[smashp]

looks like the Interwebs need more tubes

 

[Skitzer]

You can't believe how painful and frustrating it must be for them not to have You Tube or The Drudge Report.
Unbearable!

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Interesting.


http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Di...ruary/theworld_Februar

Edit- Fixed own Link

 

[NaughtyGeek]

Link fixed

Interesting indeed.

 

[ITJunkie]

I heard it was the hermit crab, Hawthorne, from Sherman's Lagoon trying to corner the market...

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: Skoorb
My friend who is a corporal in the military said that in a meeting he was in the generals were all talking and OMFG AN ATTACK IMMINENT AND THIS IS JUST THE FIRST PHASE OF IT AND NUCLEAR WAR AND TERRORISTS AND ZIONISTS AND RADICAL MUSLIMS OMFG

What about the saucer people and the reverse vampires?

Do they have oil?

 

[GrGr]

Well Iran is just about to open their (anti-petrodollar) Oil bourse. Maybe this was just a pre emptive shot across the bow so to speak

 

[MadRat]

Originally posted by: Martin
So three 2 foot think steel plated cables get cut in three days. My, my what an incredible coincidence!

More like 4 inches thick including the insulation and tensile reinforcement. It is much easier to simply cut power to a series of the repeaters. In fact, I wouldn't doubt if this is power-related and there is zero damage to the cables themselves.

Originally posted by: GrGr
Well Iran is just about to open their (anti-petrodollar) Oil bourse. Maybe this was just a pre emptive shot across the bow so to speak

Iran's exports are so meager it really doesn't matter to most of the world if they simply didn't exist tomorrow.

 

[RY62]

Possibly related?? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6394387.stm

 

[vhx]

http://www.earthfiles.com/

http://hardware.slashdot.org/a...02/04/0158249&from=rss

4th goes down.

 

[wwswimming]

Iran's exports are so meager it really doesn't matter to most of the world if they simply didn't exist tomorrow.

Iran has about 100 Billion Barrels proven reserves, a little
less than Iraq.

by comparison, Prudhoe Bay had 11 billion, 10 billion of
which have been pumped out.

 

[Icepick]

Has there been any official word as to the cause of the outage?

 

[piasabird]

As far as I can tell Internet access to Iran is from ITU which is part of the UN, or managed by the UN.

http://www.itu.int/ITUTELECOM/whats_telecom/itu.html

If several cables just happen to be run to in the same location then it is possible that they could all be cut at once.

 

[NaughtyGeek]

Originally posted by: piasabird
As far as I can tell Internet access to Iran is from ITU which is part of the UN, or managed by the UN.

http://www.itu.int/ITUTELECOM/whats_telecom/itu.html

If several cables just happen to be run to in the same location then it is possible that they could all be cut at once.

The first 2 cables were in close proximity to one another. The third and fourth cables were in another geographic location.

 

[NeoV]

something is clearly going on here

 

[ericlp]

wouldn't you think if Iran was down the our forces in Iraq should be down too, I don't think they included running undersea cables in the terrorist plan, but maybe they did...

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: ericlp
wouldn't you think if Iran was down the our forces in Iraq should be down too, I don't think they included running undersea cables in the terrorist plan, but maybe they did...

What about satellites?

 

[BirdDad]

A communications disruption can mean only one thing-invasion!

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: BirdDad
A communications disruption can mean only one thing-invasion!

They're not attacking from space, they're attacking from the deep.


OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS



Glad I don't live near the ocean.

 

[wwswimming]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
They're not attacking from space, they're attacking from the deep.

like Cloverfield ?

http://www.renesys.com/blog/20...s_not_disconne_1.shtml

interesting link analyzing traffic.

Iran's Internet Access > 0

 

[Ozoned]

And Now, 3 undersea cables in Egypt cut

Mass Internet outages in Egypt after undersea cables cut
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Strange. 3 Again.
Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea have been cut, causing massive Internet outages, Egypt's communications ministry said Friday.

Three Internet cables were cut off the coast of Sicily on Friday morning, according to the ministry. Throughout Egypt, the Internet is almost completely down or working sporadically.

The ministry says it will take "several days" for cables to be repaired and is trying to switch Egypt's Internet to an alternative route.

It was the second large-scale Internet outage in Egypt this year. Undersea cables were also damaged in January, causing outages in the Mideast and India.

Yemen and Sudan were also having phone and Internet difficulties Friday because of the cable cut.

 

[UncleWai]

no wonder i haven't been receiving my daily middle eastern head scarf porn

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
no wonder i haven't been receiving my daily middle eastern head scarf porn

I'll pm you my collection to make up for it.

 

[Leon]

So, OMG JEWS!!! attacking Iran again? Damn!

Leon