On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:42:02 -0000 "Rod Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, when you have all these cables running through narrow straits > or converging to the same stretch of beach, it does not strike me as > at all extraordinary. > But they aren't near each other. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cable.html says that the first two cuts were in the Mediterranean, near Marseille and Alexandria; the third was in the Persian Gulf, near Dubai (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Internet-Outages.html). --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb