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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That might explain why my buddies I’m emailing in Dubai aren’t responding…

Curzon added these pithy words on 07 Feb 08 at 3:04 am

See,things like that happen when you stop whaling….

Aceface added these pithy words on 07 Feb 08 at 7:40 am

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