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> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:39 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest
> (Qatar to UAE)
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> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Kee Hinckley wrote:
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> > Which leads me to my op
Hey, me next!
Or it could be a US (or other) attempt to disrupt some terrorist
operation in progress which was designed to be coordinated over the
internet.
I think all this speculation, at best, just reveals the limitations of
peoples' imaginations.
Is there any "triangulation" of disruption
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Kee Hinckley wrote:
Which leads me to my operational question.
If you know that someone wants to cut your cables. What defense do you
have? Is there any practical way to monitor and protect an oceanic
cable? Are there ways to build them that would make them less
discove
Alex Pilosov wrote:
This conversation is quickly spinning into discussion of politics and
terrorism.
Reminder to all, please stick to the *operational* aspects of this thread.
-alex [NANOG MLC Chair]
Agreed.
In December of 2005, for reasons entirely personal, I read every paper
availabl
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
While reading the hacker tourist article someone posted from Wired many
years ago, it mentioned that as the FO cable comes closer to shore, more
extreme measures are taken to protect it, including fluidizing the sand
underneath the cable to cause the
The US Navy will deploy their killer ninja dolphins to bottlenose any
wrong doers :@)
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Kee Hinckley
Sent: 04 February 2008 17:08
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle
I have not looked at a map. My guess is that most of these cables are linear -
point-to-point.
Obviously a more robust architecture is a ring. All TransAtlantic cables are
rings, but can you justify the economic cost of a ring architecture to serve
relatively small countries? Hmm ...
Despite
On 2/4/08, Kee Hinckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> If you know that someone wants to cut your cables. What defense do
> you have? Is there any practical way to monitor and protect an
> oceanic cable? Are there ways to build them that would make them less
> discoverable? Some way to provid
On Feb 4, 2008, at 4:29 AM, Alex Pilosov wrote:
This conversation is quickly spinning into discussion of politics and
terrorism.
Reminder to all, please stick to the *operational* aspects of this
thread.
In all the fuss about terrorism, people may be forgetting that the
terrorists have g
