Deep Sea Internet Cable Cuts An Accident?
Methinks we showing people in a certain litter box who holds the reins of power on this planet.
Sucks to be without Internet, just ask me, I was basically Internet-less all weekend.
From ABC.net:
Is information warfare to blame for the damage to underwater internet cables that has interrupted internet service to millions of people in India and Egypt, or is it just a series of accidents?
When two cables in the Mediterranean were severed last week, it was put down to a mishap with a stray anchor.
Now a third cable has been cut, this time near Dubai. That, along with new evidence that ships’ anchors are not to blame, has sparked theories about more sinister forces that could be at work.
For all the power of modern computing and satellites, most of the world’s communications still rely on submarine cables to cross oceans.
When two cables were cut off the Egyptian port city of Alexandria last week, about a 100 million internet users were affected, mainly in India and Egypt.
The cables remain broken and internet services are still compromised.
Telecommunications analyst Paul Budde says the situation demonstrates how interconnected the world is.
“It clearly shows we are talking about a global network and a global world that we are living in,” he said.
“So wherever something happens we all get, in one way or another, affected by it.”
It was assumed a ship’s anchor severed the cables, but now that is in doubt and the conspiracy theories are coming out.
Egypt’s Transport Ministry says video surveillance shows no ships were in the area at the time of the incident.
Online columnist Ian Brockwell says the cables may have been cut deliberately in an attempt by the US and Israel to deprive Iran of internet access.
Others back up that theory, saying the Pentagon has a secret strategy called ‘information warfare’.
But Mr Budde says it is far more likely to be a coincidence.
“It is absolutely strange, of course, that that happens. At the moment it really looks like bad luck rather than anything else,” he said.
Be respectful of others and their opinions. Inflammatory remarks and inane leftist drivel will be deleted. It ain’t about free speech, remember you’re in a private domain. My website, my prerogative.
If you can't handle using your real email address, don't bother posting a comment.
smirk
February 4th, 2008 at 2:29 pmYou would think it wouldn’t be that difficult which damn cable carries internet access for Iran. Considering their internet access probably runs through physical networks here in the US in some convoluted manner, mapping traffic and extrapolating from there shouldn’t be exceedingly difficult. In light of that, I’m going to have to favor the coincidence theory right now.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:03 pmYour assuming you know why they would cut the cable(s) that were cut
February 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm“Others back up that theory, saying the Pentagon has a secret strategy called ‘information warfare’
That would be ridiculous….
but I highly suspect its our work for whatever given reason
February 4th, 2008 at 3:34 pmWell… our submarine forces are working less (as far as we know) these days so why not do something like that?
We tapped the Soviet Union’s phone lines in their underwater cables… I wouldn’t put it past us and I’d certainly cheer them on.
Hoo Yah Silent Service!
February 4th, 2008 at 3:41 pmIt was a “test run” for somebody. Not likely us. We might tap into them but cutting them is not exactly much of a trick. We, or somebody else, might have wanted to see how the system reacted and how long it took to recover, reroute, etc. but I would expect that we could take care of that with simulations.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:59 pmThat’s no coincidence. One or two maybe but three? Don’t think so. Why woulkd we do that? Or the West? That’d be a little like cutting off our nose to spite our face…since we have so many ties to all those countries…???
But the Iranians? Or the Ruskys or Chinese? Maybe. My money is on the more malicious of the three. Like Iran.
February 4th, 2008 at 4:28 pmWhy wouldk we do that?
To me it wasn’t so much why but that we and all the institutions and countries and military (ADNS) were never effected according to eds
What seems to be vague to me is who was really effected
February 4th, 2008 at 6:00 pm