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Younghusband
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Younghusband

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February 6th, 2008

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Who is the enemy?

Undersea cable attacks in 2008

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.

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Curzon
February 7, 2008
3:04 am
That might explain why my buddies I'm emailing in Dubai aren't responding...
Younghusband
February 7, 2008
4:33 am
"Threat Level dismisses the controversy":http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/who-cut-the-cab.html
Aceface
February 7, 2008
7:40 am
See,things like that happen when you stop whaling....