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From: "James M. Atkinson" <jm..._at_tscm.com>
Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] {2377} Re: Fear the Backhoe
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Perhaps "fishing trawlers" like what we and the Soviets used to spy
on each other.
-jma
At 08:57 PM 1/31/2008, kondrak wrote:
>They're now claiming it was "fishing trawlers", I'll wait to see where
>the cuts are exactly, if they're close to shore I can buy the fishing story.
>Seems we will have to wait a week is to find out.
>
>James M. Atkinson wrote:
> > Two similar mid span cable cuts... massive service outages,
> > suspicious circumstances.
> >
> > I would suspect that a grapple hook was involved and that someone
> > went fishing for this cable just so that they could cut them to
> > disrupt communications infrastructure.
> >
> > The ideal threat model is would be two boats grappling for one cable,
> > which they cut is two places about a mile apart. The two more boats
> > grappling for the cable on the secondary path(s) which they also cut
> > in two locations separated by about a mile. The "floating" one mile
> > segment that they isolate would then be towed some distance way from
> > the main cable and then dropped back to the sea floor thus leaving a
> > huge gap ensuring the outage lasted months, not days.
> >
> > By targeting both the primary and secondary cables (both sides of the
> > rings) the saboteurs could have completely blinded everything in the area.
> >
> > One major cable outage in a region can be blamed for an accident, two
> > in the same region is highly suspect.
> >
> >
> > -jma
> >
> >
> > http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html
> >
> > failure hits two continents
> > Story Highlights
> >
> > Extensive Internet failure has affected much of Asia, the Middle
> > East, north Africa
> >
> > A telecommunications provider blames the outage on a major cable failure
> >
> > It has caused major disruptions to business, television and phone services
> >
> > Several reports say damaged cable in the Mediterranean could take
> a week to fix
> >
> > From CNN's Elham Nakhlawai and Mustafa Al Arab
> >
> > DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Large swathes of Asia, the
> > Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services
> > crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which
> > brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
> >
> > One major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which
> > started Wednesday, on a major undersea cable failure in the Mediterranean.
> >
> > India's Internet bandwidth has been sliced in half, The Associated
> > Press reported, leaving its lucrative outsourcing industry trying to
> > reroute traffic to satellites and other cables through Asia.
> >
> > Reports say that Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United
> > Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain are also experiencing severe problems.
> >
> > Nations that have been spared the chaos include Israel -- whose
> > traffic uses a different route -- and Lebanon and Iraq. Many Middle
> > East governments have backup satellite systems in case of cable failure.
> >
> > An official at Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information
> > Technology, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was believed
> > that a boat's anchor may have caused the problems, although this was
> > unconfirmed, AP reported. He added that it might take up to a week to
> > repair the fault.
> >
> > Rajesh Chharia, president of India's Internet Service Providers'
> > Association, explained that some firms were trying to reroute via
> > Pacific cables and that companies serving the eastern US and the UK
> > were worst affected, AP added.
> >
> > Besides the Internet, the outage caused major disruption to
> > television and phone services, creating chaos for the UAE's public
> > and private sectors.
> >
> > There were contradicting reports on the real cause behind the
> > disruption, but Du, a state-owned Dubai telecom provider, attributed
> > it to an undersea cable cut in the Mediterranean Sea between
> > Alexandria, Egypt and Palermo, Italy.
> >
> > A Du internal memo, obtained by CNN, called the situation in Dubai
> > "critical" and stated that the cable's operators did not know when
> > services would be restored.
> >
> > "This will have a major impact on our voice and Internet service for
> > all the customers," the memo stated. "The network operation team are
> > working with our suppliers overseas to resolve this as soon as possible."
> >
> > The outage led to a rapid collapse of a wide range of public services
> > in a country which proudly promotes itself as technological pioneer.
> >
> > Sources from Emirates Airlines confirmed to CNN Arabic that the
> > outage did not affect its flight schedules -- a statement which
> > assured hundreds of travelers worried after rumors about the
> > possibility of rescheduled flights due to the faults.
> >
> > However, Dnata, a government group in charge of providing air travel
> > services in the Middle East and ground handling services at Dubai
> > International Airport, acknowledged facing problems because of the
> > outage, sources from its technical department confirmed to CNN Arabic.
> >
> > The outage heavily crippled Dubai's business section, which is
> > heavily reliant on electronic means for billions of dollars' worth of
> > transactions daily.
> >
> > Wadah Tahah, the business strategies and development manager for
> > state-owned construction company EMAAR, told CNN Arabic that it was
> > fortunate the outage started Wednesday, when there had been only
> > moderate activity in the UAE markets. He said that softened the blow
> > to business interests.
> >
> > But Tahah warned that if the outage continued, "such a situation
> > could create problems between brokers, companies, and investors due
> > to loss of control."
> >
> >
> >
> >
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