On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:21:00 -0800 "Scott Francis" <darkuncle@gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 1, 2008 6:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
"We had another cut today between Dubai and Muscat three hours back. The cable was about 80G capacity, it had telephone, Internet data, everything," one Flag official, who declined to be named, told Zawya Dow Jones. The cable, known as Falcon, delivers services to countries in the Mediterranean and Gulf region, he added.
this (3 undersea cables in about a week, serving the same geographic area, with two of the cuts happening on the same day!) is leaving the realm of improbability and approaching the realm of conspiracy ...
(either that, or the backhoe operators' union has decided there's better money to be made on water than on land.)
Yah. I'm a security guy, and hence suspicious by nature -- our slogan is "Paranoia is our Profession" -- and I'm getting very concerned. The old saying comes to mind: "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but the third time is enemy action". The alternative some common mode failure -- perhaps the storm others have noted. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb