On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:21:00 -0800 "Scott Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Feb 1, 2008 6:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/third-undersea-cable-reportedly-cut/story.aspx?guid={1AAB2A79-E983-4E0E-BC39-68A120DC16D9} > > > > "We had another cut today between Dubai and Muscat three hours > > back. The cable was about 80G capacity, it had telephone, Internet > > data, everything," one Flag official, who declined to be named, > > told Zawya Dow Jones. > > The cable, known as Falcon, delivers services to countries in the > > Mediterranean and Gulf region, he added. > > this (3 undersea cables in about a week, serving the same geographic > area, with two of the cuts happening on the same day!) is leaving the > realm of improbability and approaching the realm of conspiracy ... > > (either that, or the backhoe operators' union has decided there's > better money to be made on water than on land.) Yah. I'm a security guy, and hence suspicious by nature -- our slogan is "Paranoia is our Profession" -- and I'm getting very concerned. The old saying comes to mind: "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but the third time is enemy action". The alternative some common mode failure -- perhaps the storm others have noted. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
