According to telecom provider Interoute, three of the four underseas sub-cables connecting Asia to North America have been severed for unknown reasons. These cables carry more than 75% of the internet traffic between the America, Europe, and the Middle East. The cut occurred today somewhere in the Mediterranean, between Sicily and Tunisia, though, at present, the reasons for the cut are unknown; nevertheless, France Telecom has stated that it thinks an attack is "unlikely." At present, 65% of internet traffic with India is offline, 59% with Singapore, 44% with Malaysia, 55% with Saudi Arabia, 52% with Egypt, 39% with Taiwan, and 51% with Pakistan. Yemen and Sudan have also reported phone and Internet difficulties Friday, though it is unclear whether this is tied to the outage. The breakage will probably take several days for the cables to be repaired, so business traffic is currently being routed through lines going to the US. More updates as they come.
In January this year a breakdown in an international undersea cable network disrupted Internet links to Egypt, India and Gulf Arab countries.
These things seem so vulnerable.
I'm actually pretty worried :/
edit: On the lighter side of things, I'm reminded of the Robot Chicken episode where terrorists somehow managed to eradicate the porn collections in households across America. This cable disruption would be the first step in demoralizing porn-stream-enthusiasts and other porn-enthusiasts.
Last edited by ootput on 20 Dec 2008 - 02:39
In all previous cases, it turns out ships running aground or dragging anchors in the wrong places cut the cables.
I'm sure whoever put them there and maintains them knows where they are.
It's also not really a secret where the cables are located. The last time it happened it was shown that someone with an underwater cutting torch could easily do it. They're not buried very deep at all.
Last edited by NightmarE D on 20 Dec 2008 - 02:14
It's also not really a secret where the cables are located. The last time it happened it was shown that someone with an underwater cutting torch could easily do it. They're not buried very deep at all.
Yeah but the oceans are pretty deep...you can't just go snorkling to get to the bottom of the ocean to cut a cable.
bull****. It slipped out of the media when the ships that screwed up admitted it and proof was established beyond a reasonable doubt what happened.
as long as they aren't an heroes...
Like some type of genetic mutation that gives them wit powers?
This bad really is it? oh dear...
all those outages are annoying for us
Really what has happened is the USA attacked the cables and are pointing their finger at terrorists. Bush has proclaimed they will continue their war of terror and are going to bring in new procedures preventing this happening again. Anyone wanting to use a boat or submarine will now have to arrive 4 hours before departure to pass seaport security. You will no longer be allowed to take nail files onto boats as these could be used to cut though the 69mm thick cables. These are just two new incentives to protect possible terrorists from causing such damage again and cripple American freedoms.
Again. bull****. The areas hardest hit are the ones that...um...actually USE the Internet. There is no conspiracy here...just incompetence and human error.
I mean, ruin my MobileMe syncing and you've really ****ed up my whole day.
my internets are still working just great
my internets are still working just great
i maybe spoke too soon. my router and connection became totally unresponsive several times yesterday which is most unusual. it'll happen occasionally, like once a month or something, but not twice in a day. anyone else in UK seeing issues or will i just blame the weather?
This article makes no sense.
Ahh see, that makes more sense.
Yes, if you live in India, Singapore, Malay, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Taiwan, Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan, etc.
For those of us in the west, the answer is no, unless you're trying to access something hosted in the armpit of the world.
Hey now, let's at least try not to insult entire nations.
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Ping statistics for 208.80.152.2:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 6, Lost = 4 (40% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 520ms, Maximum = 559ms, Average = 531ms
Local sites are working okay.
Scirwode
that should stop those illegal sharers! MUUHHAAA
well there goes our tech support...
i was downloading a cd today too and it was like 10 kbsec, figures!
A big fish
A big fish
Nah, it was double posts...
telephone?
Haha, that's so demented.
No, Who's on first base. What is on second...
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Ping statistics for 209.124.63.219:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 419ms, Maximum = 481ms, Average = 456ms
Hell it's too slow here!
You know what's funny, my internet here in california is alot faster than normal now....perhaps ya'll suckin up my megahurtz!
3 out 4 cables? is that really all we have? do they not have any better way to lay these lines? might be easier to just sent maybe 2 lines into space and have some hanging lines from the sky... i dunno, whole thing sounds sort of silly to me in the way it was put. I guess its just seeing 3 out of 4 lines... maybe thats why the internet is so slow, we only have 4 tubes to share with, and the politicians said it the best. We are just all cramming up our 4 tubes with too much LOL, well, now 1 tube right? lol
The internet is TUBES!!
Last edited by SirEvan on 21 Dec 2008 - 01:30
latency.
OH NOES!! angry child with napkin
when that "mccolo" crowd died off a few weeks back i received no spam for days. now its back to a few messages a day. somewhat less than i was receiving a month or two ago.
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