Fifth Cable Cut, Iran Loses Net Connectivity

Slashdot ^ | 2/06/2008 | CmdrTaco

[sionnsar]

You may have noticed a number of stories recently about undersea cables getting cut around the world. Apparently the total is now up to 5, but the scariest part of this is that Iran is now offline. You can also read Schneier's comments on this coincidence.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Global warming.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Are those fricken’ sharks with fricken’ laser beams attached to their fricken’ heads?"

[cinives]

BTW love your tagline

[Bahbah]

Wow...just wow.

[Syncro]

Those little red push-pins broke the cables?

Dern!

[ArrogantBustard]

That’s seriously cool ... dude has some big brass ones getting in that thing.

[DJtex]

Five cable cuts!!! It definitely has NSA hands all over it. I think that it's either to mess with Iran/OPEC's head, tit for tat over Iran's jeuvenile speed boat provocations, or it's a cover for our planting a combination eavesdropping and misinformation link into the line somewhere distant from the break on each line.

Tapping in is one thing--it can be done nondisruptively. Diverting the feed through a box than can selectively listen, disrupt, or deliver misinformation would require an outage on the line. So we cover it up by staging a break someplace else so they don't see our handiwork.

[BIGLOOK]

Question; Who fears the internet most?

[BIGLOOK]

Addenda;

[okie01]

Iran has a submarine.

So does Israel. Several of them.

[ARE SOLE]

They are cutting cables, not tapping them.

[usmcobra]

[NCjim]

:-)

[steve86]

They are cutting cables, not tapping them.

The cutting may be a diversion/interruption to cover up a tapping operation at a different location on the same cable (not by a major power, though, they wouldn't need to do that).

[traumer]

TIC - TAC - TIC - TAC...

[steve86]

OH, that was already brought up earlier in the thread. Bad habit to start reading at the end :(

[ARE SOLE]

The cutting may be a diversion/interruption to cover up a tapping operation at a different location on the same cable (not by a major power, though, they wouldn't need to do that).

Good point. It makes sense to me. Interesting stuff. Regards

[Bryan24]

Sounds like someone is wanting to isolate some Al Queda extremists and make them use means other than the net for communicating.

Duh.

Sounds like we’re moving in on some big-time AQ operatives.