Fifth Internet Cable Cut!

[Duddy]

A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each. These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria.

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If this is true, then it's absolutely not a coincidence and is intentional. A prelude perhaps to war.

 

[Modeps]

they're just trying to stop all them pirates

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Wow. I knew it. At first, it was a rare freak accident.

But when 5 cables fail in a week, its an act of agression

I recommend Defcon 1, and Nukes at standby.

 

[her209]

Strange indeed.

 

[BigJ]

Somebody call Chuck Norris.

 

[jjones]

This is a precursor to an alien invasion. Man your tinfoil hats!

 

[TruePaige]

Okay, this is a bit creepy. ATOT, if we can't connect to one another again...I always loved your..cheezburgerz.

 

[akshatp]

FIFTH one cut?? What the hell is going on?

I heard some rumblings about power supply failures in the 3rd and/or 4th ones. What was the apparent cause this time?

 

[Bootprint]

Sorry about that, I just got these new cable cutters and wanted to try them out.

Watch out if AT&T offers to fix them for free.

 

[Kaervak]

Paging Sam Fisher, Sam Fisher please pick up the white courtesy phone in "RESTRICTED AREA"

 

[abracadabra1]

Maybe the Chinese are honing their submarine TTPs by cutting international data cables. That way, they can destroy our data cables to Europe and Asia come WWIII.

 

[Duddy]

Originally posted by: akshatp
FIFTH one cut?? What the hell is going on?

I heard some rumblings about power supply failures in the 3rd and/or 4th ones. What was the apparent cause this time?

It was severed. I heard the 4th one was because of a power failure.

What's insanely out of place is the geographic location of each cut. The cuts seem to be targeting Iran solely.

 

[iamwiz82]

I was suspicious after two lines. This is beyond a coincidence. If not, I need to buy some lottery tickets.

 

[James Bond]

Hmm...

Well, it's not good...

 

[BradT]

Exactly how many are there? If there are significantly more, than perhaps it is just poor maintenance.

 

[spidey07]

Yeah, we...uh, yeah intercepted some...uh..."encrypted" conversations. Silly iranians, they're using keys we already own.

But I read on the intarweb that SSL/SSH was secure!
nope.

 

[Q]

What's going on? I am confused

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Quintox
What's going on? I am confused

Here is what is going on...

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: BradT
Exactly how many are there? If there are significantly more, than perhaps it is just poor maintenance.

Eh... Five? One or two, ok. Five? In a week?

Very odd...

 

[cheezy321]

What if they are being taken down so some data interceptors were put on the cables so the US could spy on all the internet traffic in the middle east?

*NEEDS TINFOIL HAT*

 

[SoulAssassin]

I don't know if I believe it's actually a fifth cable yet. I call shens.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

They're trying to cut off the Middle East and Southwest Asia.

 

[FeuerFrei]

It's because Iran(?) is planning a brutal crackdown on its populace and doesn't want the gory details released on the internets. Getting serious about isolationism.

 

[ChaoZ]

Is Anon seriously taking over?

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
They're trying to cut off the Middle East and Southwest Asia.

cut off? Was there a pun in there somewhere?