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Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:48:44 -0800
: bubba driving his backhoe ship Now that'd make a great NANOG shirt! :-) scott --- ops.lists () gmail com wrote: From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists () gmail com> To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu> Cc: "Scott Francis" <darkuncle () gmail com>, nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 07:09:50 +0530 On Feb 2, 2008 4:07 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu> wrote:
Yah. I'm a security guy, and hence suspicious by nature -- our slogan is "Paranoia is our Profession" -- and I'm getting very concerned. The old saying comes to mind: "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but the third time is enemy action". The alternative some common mode failure -- perhaps the storm others have noted.
Quite a few other lists I look at (especially those with a "critical infrastructure protection" type focus - seem to feel the same as you do. And at least one list has already started the "maybe al qaeda is behind this" idea running. The fun part is that quite a lot of these cables are in international waters, so it just might turn into a high level multiple UN agency conference, sooner or later with ideas like a bunch of navy or coast guard cutters tasked to patrol on the borders of cable landing areas and head off shipping that wants to anchor, trawlers that want to drag nets across the ocean floor, bubba driving his backhoe ship .. [and that still doesnt keep away sharks that want to sharpen their teeth on undersea cables...] srs
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- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Sean Donelan (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Scott Francis (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Bill Stewart (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Bill Stewart (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Sean Donelan (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 01)
- RE: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Rod Beck (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Scott Francis (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Martin Barry (Feb 02)