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RE: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
From: "Ben Butler" <ben.butler () c2internet net>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:29:23 -0000
The US Navy will deploy their killer ninja dolphins to bottlenose any wrong doers :@) -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Kee Hinckley Sent: 04 February 2008 17:08 To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) On Feb 4, 2008, at 4:29 AM, Alex Pilosov wrote:
This conversation is quickly spinning into discussion of politics and terrorism. Reminder to all, please stick to the *operational* aspects of this thread.
In all the fuss about terrorism, people may be forgetting that the terrorists have goals *other* than terrorism, and one of those is reducing the influence of the West over the Middle East. Removing internet connections certainly is an effective (and probably necessary) step in that direction. Even if this was accidental, it will have made them more aware of the possibility. Which leads me to my operational question. If you know that someone wants to cut your cables. What defense do you have? Is there any practical way to monitor and protect an oceanic cable? Are there ways to build them that would make them less discoverable? Some way to provide redundancy? A non-physical solution involving underwater repeaters? Or is this like pipelines in Iraq?
Current thread:
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE), (continued)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Raymond Macharia (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Martin Hannigan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Mark Newton (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Patrick Clochesy (Feb 04)
- [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Alex Pilosov (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Kee Hinckley (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Brandon Galbraith (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Hank Nussbacher (Feb 04)
- RE: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Rod Beck (Feb 04)
- RE: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Ben Butler (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Steve Gibbard (Feb 04)
- RE: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Tomas L. Byrnes (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Barry Shein (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 04)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Alexander Harrowell (Feb 04)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Lou Katz (Feb 04)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Rod Beck (Feb 04)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Jim Popovitch (Feb 04)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Rod Beck (Feb 04)