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The Effects of the Fibre Outage Throughout the Mediterranean
Umar Kalim writes "Analysts have been studying the effects of the fibre outage throughout the Mediterranean in terms of network performance, by examining the changes in packet losses, latencies and throughput. We initially discussed the outage yesterday. 'It is interesting that some countries such as Pakistan were mainly unaffected, despite the impact on neighboring countries such as India. This contrasts dramatically to the situation in June - July 2005, when due to a fibre cut of SEAMEWE3 off Karachi, Pakistan lost all terrestrial Internet connectivity which resulted, in many cases, in a complete 12 day outage of services. This is a tribute to the increased redundancy of international fibre connectivity installed for Pakistan in the last few years.'"
Pakistan is not in Mediterranean. Outage is not throughout Mediterranean. that's like basic geography, people!
root of all...
Well, obviously, the White House ordered these attacks. They've been trying to delay the opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse for years and now that it is finally almost here, and their plans to invade Iran are dwindling, this is all they can do. And sadly, I'm sure it will work, too. That's how they prop up the US Dollar -- For the past 50 years, there have been only 2 places in the entire world where one can legally buy oil and both require US Dollars. Now, that will remain the case for another year. Of course, Russia is working on it, too as well as Venezuela, but they're a long way off and lots can go wrong between now and then. Maybe another military invasion? :o(
When I first heard about this only one thing popped into my head. I'm sure some will call me paranoid but those that do sound like idiots given the US's recurring history. This outage sounds exactly like a US military/CIA ploy to place snooping equipment inline. The US has a long history of doing exactly this, especially with the Russians. Sure, I may be wrong but once you consider those cables are well marked, the chances of them accidentally becoming broken are astronomically unlikely. The only likely scenario is one driven by the US' desire to spy.
Sure I could be wrong but it's far more likely I'm right.
I do not believe the intent is to "cut off" but that spy with a cover story.