Undersea Cable Cut Circumstances Examined

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Wired has a good review of all the recent undersea cable cuts and why it's suspicious, but unlikely to be a conspiracy. So far, there are only four cut cables (the 'fifth' was weeks ago) in two different locations. Of course, a cable is damaged once every three days, on average, and there are 25 ships that do nothing but repair them. While the timing and locations are a little odd, Iran has been online the whole time, even if some of their routers weren't, and none of the conspiracy theories really add up. In a recent interview, TeleGeography Analyst Eric Schoonover said, 'I think that this is more along the lines of coincidence.'"

Comments

In Soviet Russia..

[Anonymous Coward]

cable cut you.

Re:In Soviet Russia..

[fyngyrz]

Pretty sharp remark. Wire you bothering us? There's no connection to the story, so conduct yourself accordingly, Sparky.

Re:In Soviet Russia..

[halivar]

I wish there was a way to simultaneously mod you +1 Funny, and kill you. A pun that bad deserves both.

right.....

[djupedal]

"'I think that this is more along the lines of coincidence.'"

And I think an 'abandoned' 5-ton anchor found at one of the cut sites, when no ships were reported in the area, is _not_ along the lines of coincidence...

"Try this one..." SNIP
Egypt! Damn!
"nope...that's not it"
"okok....cut this one!" SNIP
Dubai?! Dang!
"Don't worry, we'll get it soon - cut this other one!" SNIP
Iran?!!! Finally! "Ok, good work, let's go home!"

Re:Traditional conspiracy breeding ground

[Alsee]

Ok, say I take take all this mumbojumbo about cables and statistics mathamalogical stuff and say this is all just an insignificant coincidence...

But if three days from now there's a story about a SIXTH cable cut, then it's definitely a conspiracy!

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