Quake in Taiwan Cripples Internet

judebx writes "Powerful quakes measuring 7 on the Richter scale have struck southern Taiwan and caused damage to undersea communication cables, disrupting telephone and internet services in several parts of Asia. The quake comes on the second anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and triggered tsunami warnings. Human casualties, however, have been low so far."

Comments

A Communication disruption can only mean one thing

[Anonymous Coward]

Invasion

Re:What is the sound of one spam clapping?

[ScentCone]

I speak for everyone in Hong Kong

Please do me a favor, since you speak for everyone in Hong Kong, and see about the other little problem (aside from the ocean of spam that does come from your neighborhood). The vast majority of the more sophisticated crack attempts that I see pounding on all sorts of systems that I touch come from Asia, and most of that from China and Korea. There are plenty from Romania, Russia, and elsewhere, too, but because of the types of systems that I work with (and the businesses that they support), the signal to noise ratio (for all packets, not just e-mail) from where you're sitting makes handling those packets more or less pointless. I'm sorry that you get a lot of spam from elsewhere, but I see very deliberate, beyond-script-kiddie crap coming from your side of the Pacific in a steady, relentless attack. Not your fault, of course. But save some of your hissing and spitting for the people around you that have forced my hand so many times.

heh

[SuperStretchy]

Better get Al Gore off his ranch to go fix his love child.

I always thought

[iminplaya]

that the internet had a very robust Department of Redundancy Department. Shouldn't this be a wake up call to all of us that if you want reliable internet, you have to break it free from the corporate mono culture that it and all of our present day communication infrastructure suffers from? Start with good wireless, perhaps? If we don't, you will soon see intentional shutdowns. And on another note, the people who make all of the equipment that makes the internet work and all of your computers and such belong to a pretty exclusive club. They can shut you down PDQ also. As far as expanding our freedoms, the whole internet thing is turning out to be one big disappointment. It is almost as tightly controlled as all the other mass communication technologies we have. Unless your machine gets smashed by falling debris, you should be able to network to other computers no matter where they are. Maybe the internet works just fine for DoD, but for the rest of us, it's no better than Ma Bell's phone service.