Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:05:07 -0800e> To: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net> From: bill.stewart@pobox.com> Subject: Re: undersea cable cuts> > > Hadn't heard
There's been lots of net speculation about maliciousness, but for me the odds of 3/4 failures of undersea cables in such a relatively small area and over such a short amount of time is extremely suspicious, particularly given how robust such cables are. (ie, there's maybe a dozen in the whole world at any one time, over millions of route miles). Whether these are JbT-type terrorists is, I think, doubtful given the revenues traveling over these things and particularly how ineffective the cuts were. The cuts certainly appeared to me to be attempts to get a working+protect sides of fiber rings by people who didn't have access to that level of detail about how the rings are deployed over the wavelength/fiber/cable pairs. -TD this was malicious ... you have a reference?> > The fourth failure turned out not to be a cable cut,> just some kind of equipment power problem.> > Certainly once the third cut happened,> things look pretty suspicious even if they don't turn out deserve it.> And there are different kinds of terrorists out there -> the ones that wear government uniforms (or wear cheap suits> but work for governments) don't always take the credit themselves.> > At 07:35 PM 2/4/2008, Sarad AV wrote:> >'terrorists' take credit and are proud of their actions.> >nothing of that kind has happened yet.> >I guess that satellite communication is another alternative.> > Satellites have very limited bandwidth compared to fiber.> They may be ok for countries that don't have useful infrastructure,> like Iraq, Afghanistan, and most of Africa,> but they don't begin to replace the internet or private network connectivity> that was on the fiber systems that were cut;> I don't know how big the fourth cable was. _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail.-get your "fix". http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx