[102223] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Epstein)
Fri Feb 1 18:45:46 2008
From: "Randy Epstein" <repstein@chello.at>
To: "'Rod Beck'" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>, <andrew@profitability.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:24 -0500
In-reply-to: <71CB284A12EDA54880FF588A8BAC0BE20E4F54@ernie.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
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RodBeck said:
>Telecommunication facilities have rarely been targets of terrorism. There
is only one known case - the Tamil Tigers destroyed a central office in Sri
Lanka some years back. My guess is that terrorists want to kill people, not
destroy optical muxes, >Class 5 switches, and the like.
Actually, last year, Scotland Yard claimed Al Qaeda planned on blowing up
one of the Telehouse facilities in the UK:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/garfinkel/17561/
Randy
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