5th iran cable cut???

[OutHouse]

http://it.slashdot.org/article...02/06/1431206&from=rss

what the hell is going on? 5 cable cuts? yea somebody is up to no good.

 

[eits]

there was a large underwater cable carrying internet to the middle east and southern asia.... 70% of it got severed. much of india doesn't have internet either.

dunno what this has to do with a bombing...

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

I don't see how all of those cables being cut around the same time could be a coincidence.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
I don't see how all of those cables being cut around the same time could be a coincidence.

Could be a CIA experiment to see how such outages affect foreign governments and intelligence agencies?

 

[sandorski]

Not sure how this affects the Iran situation. If, assuming the US is doing it, anything it might be a way to isolate Al Queda. Make it next to impossible to send out orders. If that's the case, I think it's likely overkill and likely to backfire in some unforeseen way.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

or maybe ahmajenedan(sp) doesn't want his people surfing the tubes. lol

 

[blackangst1]

Holy shit

 

[palehorse]

Another take:
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Di...155.xml&section=theuae

 

[rpanic]

Originally posted by: blackangst1
Holy shit

No shit

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: eits
there was a large underwater cable carrying internet to the middle east and southern asia.... 70% of it got severed. much of india doesn't have internet either.

dunno what this has to do with a bombing...

that was like cut #2. the one i post is cut #5..... all happening on different days and locations.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: palehorse74
Another take:
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Di...155.xml&section=theuae

Someone needs to learn how to design a web page. That link is poorly displayed in FF and IE.

 

[ProfJohn]

I think it is Dr Evil and his sharks with frickin' laser beams doing all this.

Any day now someone is going to demand a million dollars...

 

[Icepick]

I find it highly unlikely that this is a prelude to war or that the U.S. has anything to do with these cuts. If this is an attempt to cut off communications for Iran in preparation for invasion then it's been executed in a half-assed manner. If that was the intention then it would have been easy for the Navy to cut them all at the same time or at least the same day. Then they should have followed up immediately with bombing or rocket attacks. None of that has come to pass.

Repairs on these cables is already underway and there have been no attacks.

Besides, I highly doubt GWB is stupid enough to attempt an invasion of Iran given our current entanglements.

 

[Icepick]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
I think it is Dr Evil and his sharks with frickin' laser beams doing all this.

Any day now someone is going to demand a million dollars...

Haven't you heard? The lobster people are angry with us for infringing upon their territories by laying these monstrous comm cables over their homes. I, for one, bow down to our red clawed overlords.

 

[glugglug]

Originally posted by: Icepick
Besides, I highly doubt GWB is stupid enough to attempt an invasion of Iran given our current entanglements.

/em taps sarcasm meter

Is this thing on?

 

[lozina]

It's the Osama Bin Ladin Scuba Squad

 

[yllus]

I don't exactly think that the Internet is critical to the command and control of the Iranian military machine. If anything, the higher-ups in Iran despise the Internet for its generally unfiltered content that sways the populace from the message they'd like them to hear.

Interestingly, at the start of World War I the Brits purposely cut almost all of the few trans-Atlantic cables that would have allowed Germany and the other Axis powers to securely communicate with America or Mexico. It was a brilliant strategic move by the Brits and netted them invaluable information.

At the outset of the war, the Germans had five transatlantic cables that ran through the English Channel. One went to Brest in France, another to Vigo in Spain, one to Tenerife in North Africa and two to New York via the Azores. The English cable ship Telconia cut them all in England?s first offensive action in the war.

This left a cable that ran between West Africa and Brazil that was largely American-owned that the Germans could use. In short order the allies ended that source of direct cable communications with the overseas world. Consequently, Germany was forced to use their powerful wireless station at Nauen, just a few miles outside Berlin.

From this moment, German messages were routinely picked from the air and began pouring into the offices of British Naval Intelligence. In order to capture this flood of information, four new allied listening stations were established along the English coast with direct wires to Admiral Hall?s offices.

Historic precedent: Undersea cables cut as prelude to war.

 

[The Green Bean]

My internet went off for a few hours yesterday afternoon too because of this.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Why is this not major news? I just checked the slashdot article and one of the links leads to ilovebonnie.com. wtf?

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Not sure how this affects the Iran situation. If, assuming the US is doing it, anything it might be a way to isolate Al Queda. Make it next to impossible to send out orders. If that's the case, I think it's likely overkill and likely to backfire in some unforeseen way.

?? what does al-qaeda have anything to do with iran?

 

[blackangst1]

I checked internethealthreport, and it indeed shows iran at a 0 rating and asia at 68. Very bad. Asia is usually in the 90's (0-100 rating)

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: sandorski
Not sure how this affects the Iran situation. If, assuming the US is doing it, anything it might be a way to isolate Al Queda. Make it next to impossible to send out orders. If that's the case, I think it's likely overkill and likely to backfire in some unforeseen way.

?? what does al-qaeda have anything to do with iran?

Nothing. That's my point. It makes more sense that the US would attempt to isolate Al Queda this way, rather than Iran.

 

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
My internet went off for a few hours yesterday afternoon too because of this.

Finally some good news came out of this

 

[HeXploiT]

Originally posted by: palehorse74
Another take:
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Di...155.xml&section=theuae

The experts also suggested that the cause of damage could have been a ship?s anchor that was dragging due to inclement weather conditions in the region during that particular period.

You've got to be kidding me? Five cables? I think that's the most brilliant idea I've ever heard.

 

[NaughtyGeek]

Again, the question needs to be asked. What information is being suppressed by this outage? This has to be some sort of financial maneuver IMO.