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Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again
miller60 writes "Three undersea cables in the Mediterranean Sea have failed within minutes of each other in an incident that is eerily similar to a series of cable cuts in the region in early 2008. The cable cuts are already causing serious service problems in the Middle East and Asia. See coverage at the Internet Storm Center, Data Center Knowledge and Bloomberg. The February 2008 cable cuts triggered rampant speculation about sabotage, but were later attributed to ships that dropped anchor in the wrong place."
Whoosh!
Normally the fastest, easiest, cheapest route is the direct route through the Mediterranean. If somebody wanted to get the traffic flowing through the US (insert your favorite nefarious three letter agency here), one way to do it would be to "accidentally" cut those cables. Then when everybody in the middle east and Europe starts routing their data through the US, you intercept it, without the bother and expense of doing it overseas.
Not that I buy into that theory, but I think that's what he meant.
Maybe not
Anchors, Trawlers, Sharks, Earthquakes, Landslides, Fault lines, Currents, Waves, Extreme weather, Ice bergs (not in the middle east though I'd hope!).
Many other human activities can be responsible too of course (sinking ships, cargo/litter being dumped off ships etc.)
Dick Cheney, is that you?
Catalin Braescu
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