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Fifth Cable Cut, Iran Loses Net Connectivity
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| 2/06/2008
| CmdrTaco
Posted on 02/06/2008 8:09:13 AM PST by 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.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coincidence; internet; iran; justacoincidence; telecom
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To: Allegra
Glad to know you are still connected.
I wish I could figure out what the heck is going on.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:19:51 AM PST
by
Bahbah
To: sionnsar
Seems like a good predecessor to an attack. No immediate images of baby milk factories in rubble.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:20:11 AM PST
by
elfman2
("As goes Fallujah, so goes central Iraq and so goes the entire country" -Col Coleman, USMC ,4/2004)
To: PennsylvaniaMom
Well Rove has to have some hobby in his retirement years... Hold Up! I thought he was busy with his weather machine. lol. Now that you mention it, he does have a lot more spare time on his hands . . . that rascally rabbit.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:20:15 AM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: sionnsar
They should have bought a Mac.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:20:22 AM PST
by
billorites
(Freepo ergo sum)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Youd think the NSA would just tap in.They used to tap into Soviet undersea cables. I doubt they've abandoned such practices altogether.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:21:05 AM PST
by
squidly
To: pangenesis
My money is on NSA, they are probably installing some data mining technology on the lines. If we capture the info there, and offshore the analysis to say, Diego Garcia, why would we need to consult Congress or get warrants?
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:21:10 AM PST
by
milwguy
(........)
To: pangenesis
The only question is, is this Al Quida, Or the NSA? I'd have to say that it's probably an Islamic fundamentalist ploy. If I had to guess, I'd pin the blame on the Iranians. The internet is absolute murder for them -- there's no way for them to control the flow of information from the infidels. It reminds me a lot of the story a couple of years back, about Iran cracking down on satellite dishes.
Now ... as to "why now?" That's a pretty question. I'm thinking it's an internal thing: that Ahneedajihad is about ready to go Taleban on the Iranian people.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:21:33 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: Fresh Wind
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:21:52 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Scrape the bottom, vote for Rodham!)
To: sionnsar
A friend in Bahrain has had no problems with the internet so far.
To: quack
![](http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/prints/pr10430.jpg)
Don't f*** with me!
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:23:05 AM PST
by
Wally_Kalbacken
(Seldom right but never in doubt)
To: Fresh Wind
I think they’ve got about half a dozen subs.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:23:06 AM PST
by
squidly
To: Tijeras_Slim
People on Belmont Club are claiming that cutting a cable is a good mechanism for concealing a tap. Once repaired, new baseline measurements of its state would include the tap.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:23:20 AM PST
by
elfman2
("As goes Fallujah, so goes central Iraq and so goes the entire country" -Col Coleman, USMC ,4/2004)
To: pangenesis; quack
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:23:34 AM PST
by
RDTF
To: sionnsar
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:23:42 AM PST
by
sourcery
(Electile Disfunction: The inability to get excited about any of the available candidates)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Tapping packet switched networks is a lot easier if you channel everything into one cable. Otherwise part of the message may be transmitted on one cable and the rest on another, requiring you to tap all the cables to be sure you can get anything.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:24:09 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
To: elfman2
Loose lips sink ships, everyone.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:24:16 AM PST
by
TheThirdRuffian
(Don't blame me; I will write in Thompson.)
To: sionnsar; fanfan; marinamuffy
The first two affected India, Pakistan, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Bahrain. The third one is between the UAE and Oman. The fourth one connected Qatar and the UAE. This one may not have been cut, but taken offline due to power issues. Only one Gulf country seems to be unaffected for the most part.
Coincidence?
I think not.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:24:40 AM PST
by
Allegra
(A chicken in every pot and a pair of new socks every day.)
To: chs68
I know nothing, NUUUUTHHINNNNG!
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:24:44 AM PST
by
garyhope
(It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
To: Fresh Wind
A sub that can go undetected in waters patrolled by US and UK ships?
Do you think they would cut the lines,which then forces a re-route of their traffic to the US and UK?All while leaving Iraq and Israel completely unaffected.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:25:44 AM PST
by
quack
To: sionnsar
This is FUD, pure and simple.
Try the link to the government of Iran. it works.
Try the traffic report that says they've lost connectivity. it shows ONE FREAKING SERVER that is not responding, the one that ITR happens to check.
Give it a rest, folks.
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posted on
02/06/2008 8:26:14 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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