Who is the enemy?

Well, there goes the fifth one. Over the past week four submarine communications cables have been cut and one damaged leaving more than a billion people throughout the Middle East and Asia Internet-blind.

• SeaMeWe-4 near Penang
• FLAG near Alexandria
• FLAG near the Dubai coast
• FALCON near Bandar Abbas
• SeaMeWe-4 near Alexandria

Nobody seems to know what the hell is going on yet. As Goldfinger famously said: “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.”

Follow along with Schneier.