Comments on: Fourth Internet Cable’Breaks’

By: Virgil Samms

Virgil Samms — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:56:05 +0000

Much ado about nothing. I’ll bet the warranty on the cables expired.

By: Doug Alder

Doug Alder — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:47:12 +0000

Not really. Doing this would force them to use older technology, satellite and radio both of which are less efficient and easier to sniff. In any case this is either an amazing coincidence or something sinister. If the latter then it remains to be seen what the motive was. I would suspect that if it were the US military the cuts would have happened simultaneously and the invasion would have happened by now.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:12:39 +0000

Wouldn’t you want those links open so you could sniff the traffic?

By: Doug Alder

Doug Alder — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:08:27 +0000

I’ve been following this fairly closely as it affects my work (I work for a major Canadian data center with clientèle in over 100 countries.) The first break was unfortunate, the second a bad co-incidence considering there were no ships anchored nearby or passing over the cables at the time (as your external link indicates), but by the third break I was beginning to think there is something more than random chance going on here now you say there is a fourth outage (although not a break.) One begins to wonder what is going on here doesn’t one. A preamble to breaking external communications among Mideast countries preparatory to invading Iran perhaps?