Campfire: Is the Web Under Attack? Why Have 5 Undersea Cables Been Severed?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Woolf on February 8, 2008 at 8:50am

Check the rundown on the ilovebonnie blog. Looking at maps of the area where this has happened makes even people like me, who rarely believe in anything like conspiracies, start to think something is up.

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Permalink Reply by Cyberviking on February 9, 2008 at 7:26pm

it seems quite obvious that it's is the spooks whodunnit. OTH, I can think of a few large US and other corporations who have outsourced operations to that general region of the world, who are NOT happy with present developments :-(

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Permalink Reply by think.danijel on February 8, 2008 at 9:46am

Wait, you guys wanna say 1 million people or more (india...) are getting internet trough 5 Cables? The whole web? OMG...their crazy. No wonder, if someone cuts them. Isn't it fun to cut the Internet of 1 million people? They should make the web more secure and stabil. And NO the web is not under attack. It's just bad security and someone who wanted to have fun. Nothing more.

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Permalink Reply by Derek on February 8, 2008 at 10:18am

The cables are very high speed cables, and can hold a lot of traffic.

And you got to imagine that a lot of the traffic probably stays in those countries. I am sure they don't want to see "my" Facebook account. But, missing EPIC-FU - might be traumatic.

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Permalink Reply by think.danijel on February 8, 2008 at 10:39am

Yeah, I thought that. But again why ONLY five, do they have no money for more cables?

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Permalink Reply by Derek on February 8, 2008 at 10:43am

They are very hard to lay. Check out this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable

Also, there has been great advances in Satellite and Microwave transmissions of internet traffic.

Maybe this is why it's not AS crucial.

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Permalink Reply by think.danijel on February 8, 2008 at 10:51am

Okay, your right. Do you perhaps know how many "Cables" Europe has? And where are all these cables going to. I don't get this wohle Internet thing. When I want smth. from a Indian server, and there is no connection from Europe to there? Where is it going? And how so fast? This must be many Petabytes or so, where can all this data be sended? How's that working? *confused*

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Permalink Reply by think.danijel on February 8, 2008 at 10:52am

Found some answers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Shit, I didn't knew that's so compelx...

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http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/how-much-does-the-internet-wei...

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Permalink Reply by iamPatrick on February 8, 2008 at 3:01pm

This is pure speculation but I feel the main-stream media has a slight bias against the internet. Maybe they don't like covering this sort of thing because they don't want anyone thinking it is more important than them. Closely following the current elections across all the major news outlets has really brought their overwhelming bias to light for me.

Then again maybe demographics are coming into play?

I dunno.
I'm open to conspiracies but I don't know enough about this yet.

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Permalink Reply by Cyberviking on February 17, 2008 at 7:18pm

just watch...

Attachments:

• epic.mov, 7.8 MB

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Permalink Reply by Jason_md2020 on February 8, 2008 at 4:04pm

First I think we didn't have much coverage over here in the states, simply for the incredibly sad fact that the majority of news outlets here are pretty short sighted in the fact they can't see past America's interest. If it was About NYC or California then it wold be all over FAUX....(sorry, typo) FOX news.

As for who's behind it, it could very well be a case of just "Shit Happens." But if it was done on purpose, then the question is this: Who would benefit the most from severing communications to this part of the world?

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Permalink Reply by Alex V. on February 8, 2008 at 6:37pm

Well, at least a part of the mystery is solved.

"FLAG Telecom's FALCON cable spanning Dubai and Oman was snapped February 1 by an abandoned six-ton ship anchor, the company said, and will be repaired by Sunday." - CNN (the article)

Also from that article, "A third cut cable, called SeaMeWe-4, lies just a few hundred meters from FLAG's Europe-Asia line." So I think it's safe to assume that the anchor cut this cable as well.

I usually have a skeptical attitude towards conspiracy theories. Especially when there's little or no proof that they are valid, and when there's another explanation, in this case an accident. I'm waiting to see what the findings on the other cables are, but until then I'll stick to the coincidence theory.

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