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Third Undersea Cable Cut

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the someone-doesn't-like-connect-the-dots dept.

Many readers are reporting that another undersea fiber optic cable has been cut, apparently caused by another wayward anchor. It looks like Iran has completely lost Internet connectivity."

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  1. Third cut? by Eevee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Once is accident.

    Twice is coincidence.

    Thrice is enemy action.

    1. Re:Third cut? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Now they'll just have to phone/fax Haliburton

  2. "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines, their telephones, their lawnmowers, throw them into darkness for a few hours, and then sit back and watch the pattern."

    "This pattern is always the same?"

    "With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find.... and it's themselves. All we need do is sit back and watch."

    "I take it that this place...this Maple Street...is not unique."

    "By no means. Their world is full of Maple Streets, and we'll go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves."

    --
    Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
  3. Re:Can anyone enlighten me? by russotto · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's amazing that a ship's anchor could have the strength to pull apart two layers of stranded steel armour wires, a layer of copper, kevlar layers, and three polyethylene layers.

    Have you ever seen an anchor? Sure, it's just a hunk of low-tech metal. But it's a very LARGE hunk of low-tech metal. Connected by a very heavy cable or chain to a ship which weighs many, many tons. Ripping apart a communications cable = not a problem.
  4. Re:How to tap the cable by Eric+Smith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the US wanted to tap the cable, they'd just use the submarine USS Jimmy Carter, which was retrofitted a few years back to perform exactly these sort of operations. They'd do it without any detected loss of connectivity.