[102214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Feb 1 17:41:37 2008
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:37:17 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Scott Francis" <darkuncle@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <171423de0802011421m3675660djb3b8d05959eb0b3d@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:21:00 -0800
"Scott Francis" <darkuncle@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 1, 2008 6:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/third-undersea-cable-reportedly-cut/story.aspx?guid={1AAB2A79-E983-4E0E-BC39-68A120DC16D9}
> >
> > "We had another cut today between Dubai and Muscat three hours
> > back. The cable was about 80G capacity, it had telephone, Internet
> > data, everything," one Flag official, who declined to be named,
> > told Zawya Dow Jones.
> > The cable, known as Falcon, delivers services to countries in the
> > Mediterranean and Gulf region, he added.
>
> this (3 undersea cables in about a week, serving the same geographic
> area, with two of the cuts happening on the same day!) is leaving the
> realm of improbability and approaching the realm of conspiracy ...
>
> (either that, or the backhoe operators' union has decided there's
> better money to be made on water than on land.)
Yah. I'm a security guy, and hence suspicious by nature -- our slogan
is "Paranoia is our Profession" -- and I'm getting very concerned. The
old saying comes to mind: "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence,
but the third time is enemy action". The alternative some common mode
failure -- perhaps the storm others have noted.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
