Intent? This is almost certainly sabotage. I'm unsure why there are such mental gymnastics. Submarine cables are sabotaged periodically. Dan On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 11:02 AM Tom Beecher <beecher@beecher.cc> wrote:
The rumours floating around about this being sabotage, with no hard evidence supporting such claims, is pretty wild.
No hard evidence?
- Marine tracking shows the suspect vessel deviating from normal course, and stopping twice, each time in the area of where each cable was damaged. - After the vessel started moving again, each cable went offline shortly after. - The Danish navy has stopped the suspect vessel, and is holding it pending investigation. - The same country admitted to dragging an anchor hundreds of miles , damaging multiple subsea cables and other infrastructure just 13 months ago. Of course, it was an 'accident' .
There's plenty of evidence (both direct and circumstantial) for the claims being made to be reasonable.
On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 10:31 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
On 11/21/24 14:43, Emile Aben wrote:
On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 at 10:43, Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> wrote:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/18/europe/undersea-cable-disrupted-germany-f...
-Hank
We looked into how RIPE Atlas saw these cable cuts: https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/does-the-internet-route-around-damage... . I hope this audience finds that interesting.
The rumours floating around about this being sabotage, with no hard evidence supporting such claims, is pretty wild.
Mark.