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RE: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Butler)
Mon Feb 4 12:50:47 2008
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:29:23 -0000
From: "Ben Butler" <ben.butler@c2internet.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
The US Navy will deploy their killer ninja dolphins to bottlenose any
wrong doers :@)=20
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Kee Hinckley
Sent: 04 February 2008 17:08
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to
UAE)
On Feb 4, 2008, at 4:29 AM, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> This conversation is quickly spinning into discussion of politics and=20
> terrorism.
>
> Reminder to all, please stick to the *operational* aspects of this=20
> thread.
In all the fuss about terrorism, people may be forgetting that the =20
terrorists have goals *other* than terrorism, and one of those is =20
reducing the influence of the West over the Middle East. Removing =20
internet connections certainly is an effective (and probably =20
necessary) step in that direction. Even if this was accidental, it =20
will have made them more aware of the possibility.
Which leads me to my operational question.
If you know that someone wants to cut your cables. What defense do =20
you have? Is there any practical way to monitor and protect an =20
oceanic cable? Are there ways to build them that would make them less =20
discoverable? Some way to provide redundancy? A non-physical solution =20
involving underwater repeaters? Or is this like pipelines in Iraq?
