1 Feb
2008
1 Feb
'08
5:56 p.m.
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:42:02 -0000 "Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com> wrote:
Well, when you have all these cables running through narrow straits or converging to the same stretch of beach, it does not strike me as at all extraordinary.
But they aren't near each other. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cable.html says that the first two cuts were in the Mediterranean, near Marseille and Alexandria; the third was in the Persian Gulf, near Dubai (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Internet-Outages.html). --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb