So now we’re up to five cables cut?
DUBAI – An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the recent undersea cable damage, an expert said yesterday, quoting recent figures published by TeleGeography, an international research Web site.
Internet data was majorly affected as it is the biggest capacity carried by the undersea cables.
However, all voice calls, corporate data and video traffic were also affected.
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A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.
The question is are we only hearing more about these because the original story got traction, sort of how when there is a single high-publicity shark attack, it becomes a summer long disaster-a-thon. Or is this a real warning sign that is being ignored? Could this be a precursor to a larger seismic event or a dry-run for a terrorist attack? Once again, only time will tell.
Schneier on Security wonders if this isn’t targeting Iran, asserting that they’ve had internet disruption. Renesys Blog says that Iran isn’t disconnected, though. They suffered about 20% network loss, but this wasn’t any more significant than any other country affected. So, did whomever was behind this also cut neighboring cords to mask their actions? Or are we just wishing that we had some real covert hawks still at work on our side? Probably the latter.
With the level of enthusiasm that Atlas Shrugs is showing, you might just think that our Israeli friends were up to their famous tricks again. Exciting, and tempting, but unlikely. If it is a covert op, we probably won’t hear about it for a long while.
The Belmont Club tosses a little fodder to conspiracy theorists in the form of drug-running submarines.
The key piece is that 13 criminal submersibles were recently seized by US authorities, more than in the last 14 years put together.
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