Third Undersea Cable Cut
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ScuttleMonkey
on Fri Feb 01, 2008 03:47 PM
from the someone-doesn't-like-connect-the-dots dept.
from the someone-doesn't-like-connect-the-dots dept.
Many readers are reporting that another undersea fiber optic cable has been cut, apparently caused by another wayward anchor. It looks like Iran has completely lost Internet connectivity."
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Third cut? (Score:5, Insightful)
Once is accident.
Twice is coincidence.
Thrice is enemy action.
Re:Third cut? (Score:5, Interesting)
If this is followed by reports of various despicable actions in Iran which cannot be verified due to the lack of communication, then it would be even more suspicious.
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Re:Third cut? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Third cut? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Third cut? (Score:5, Funny)
Sigh...more fairy tales from teh Intarweb...
We all know that colorblind people can see colors correctly underwater while those who have correct vision cannot.
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Re:Third cut? (Score:5, Interesting)
You seem to be a knee-jerk skeptic, who's "Nothing to see here, move along" displays not - as you presume - intelligence, but rather a susceptibility to Jedi mind-tricks.
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Re:Third cut? (Score:5, Funny)
I pinged a host that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
The host resolved to NSA.
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Re:Third cut? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Third cut? (Score:5, Interesting)
In completely unrelated news, a couple of weeks later large portions of mideast anti-western terrorist sponsoring areas had internet access disrupted or cut off in a series of coincidental unobserved "accidents".
Hmm.....
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Re:Third cut? (Score:5, Interesting)
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:3fK6ZB19WjIJ:msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/docs/cnn/2005-02-18_cnn_optical_taps.pdf+fiber+submarine+cia&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=opera [72.14.205.104]
keep laughing guys and gals why the spies among us earn their salary.
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Re:Third cut? (Score:5, Insightful)
How much tech do you really need to cut a cable? It doesn't seem like it would require much in the way of high tech capability. Given that these cables are communication lines carrying western influences into muslim countries, I would say that at this point, we should not rule out militant acts to make a statement about wanting a reduction of western influence.
If this is our spies, this would seem to be a pretty boneheaded execution of tapping lines. But, since they work for the government, we can't rule out boneheadedness. Or just really bizzarre random chance, though that's kind of hard for me personally to swallow at this point.
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Re:Third cut? do i smell Conspiracy BS? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Third cut? do i smell Conspiracy BS? (Score:5, Funny)
Wrong on so many levels...
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Re:Third cut? do i smell Conspiracy BS? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Third cut? do i smell Conspiracy BS? (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, you wanted a "Conspiracy".
PS. Osama is hanging out on GWB's ranch in Texas - that's why they can't find him.
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"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" (Score:5, Insightful)
"This pattern is always the same?"
"With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find.... and it's themselves. All we need do is sit back and watch."
"I take it that this place...this Maple Street...is not unique."
"By no means. Their world is full of Maple Streets, and we'll go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves."
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Iran hasn't lost connectivity (Score:5, Informative)
Iran hasn't lost connectivity, the specific router that Internet Traffic Report is checking has lost connectivity.
Even the University that hosts the router that ITR is checking is still up: http://www.iust.ac.ir/ [iust.ac.ir]
Putting the puzzle pieces together (Score:5, Insightful)
It was widely reported from a variety of whistleblowers at the turn of the millennium that the U.S. was preparing the U.S.S. Jimmy Carter to be able to tap underwater fibre-optic cables. See Bamford's Body of Secrets [amazon.com] for exmaple.
That this operation was carried out on the submarine named after the president who did the most to reduce spying on civilian targets shows just how petty and spiteful the professional privacy violators in the NSA are.
When will they learn.... Oblig quote (Score:5, Funny)
Fry: What's happening?
Dr. Zoidberg: All 6,000 hulls have been breached!
Fry: Oh, the fools! If only they'd built it with 6,001 hulls! When will they learn?
Cloverfield 2 (Score:5, Funny)
In related news (Score:5, Funny)
Office productivity throughout the Middle East has risen sharply.
The Great White Backhoe (Score:5, Funny)
This reclusive giant of the deep, the Great White Backhoe, spends most of its life in quiet solitude. But, once every seven years, as if called by some unknown force, these gentle beasts gather in great numbers to feast upon the cables of the ocean floor.
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Re:This is getting exciting! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:This is getting exciting! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Can anyone enlighten me? (Score:5, Informative)
Includes a nice picture, and description of each layer.
Here's the picture link directly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Submarine_cable_cross-section_3D_plain.svg [wikipedia.org]
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