Been waitin for a good one....

AngryHippie

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| Fifth Cable Cut To Middle East |
| from the now-wait-a-minute dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 06, @10:16 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/06/1431206 |
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You may have noticed a number of stories recently about undersea cables
getting cut around the world. Apparently the total is [0]now up to 5, but
the scariest part of this is that [1]Iran is now offline. You can also
read [2]Schneier's comments on this coincidence. Update: 02/06 17:42 GMT
by [3]Z : [4]As a commenter notes, though the country of Iran is
obviously experiencing some networking difficulties, it is not offline.


What the **** is this about ??


Come on, who's gonna take this one on ????:D

meglome

There's no doubt it's weird but talk of some invasion of Iran doesn't make sense.

Firstly only four cables have been broken, the other was powered down.

Secondly Iran isn’t offline; the one router Internet Traffic Report monitors in Iran is. Which is not to say that there aren't a lot of Iranians offline. Seemingly at the same time the whole of Germany is offline, which it isn't.

If you ignore the obviously flawed idea that Iran is the target of this, I don't have strong theory as to what's happening. In reality it might just be coincidence, cables get broken all the time, just not so many at once usually. If we're going to make up reasons for this without any proof my bet is on aliens

AngryHippie

LOL yeah, some kinda wierd a'right