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| Re: Teh Intarweb is under attack! [message #315020 is a reply to message #315016] |
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by mgh02114 (655185) on Friday February 01, @04:14PM (#22266760)
The locations where many of the recent cable cuts have occurred (China, Pakistan, Palestine/Egypt, and now Iran) is highly suspicious. I suspect that the U.S. intelligence community is using a sub to tap into the fiberoptic line to capture all of the data. Unlike copper lines, they probably can't splice into glass fiberoptic lines without breaking the circuit for a while.
1) Cut the line somewhere roughly, so it clearly looks like an accident
2) Somewhere else far away, splice into the line using a sub, so the NSA can capture all the data (or even potentially alter it in transit)
3) Let the commercial communication providers fix the obvious break
4) Profit! (at least in terms of intelligence gathering and cyber-war capability
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| Re: Teh Intarweb is under attack! [message #315029 is a reply to message #315020] |
Fri, 01 February 2008 16:43 |
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Definitely a reasonable scenario. ^
What makes this likely is that not only are these cables just Internet traffic but also telephone traffic.
If we think about it, and if an advanced intelligence entity was indeed behind these mysterious incidents, then it is all the more possible...finally someone gets to listen in on what the Middle East leaders are talking about.
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| Re: Teh Intarweb is under attack! [message #315063 is a reply to message #315016] |
Fri, 01 February 2008 20:21 |
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| Re: Teh Intarweb is under attack! [message #315125 is a reply to message #315016] |
Sat, 02 February 2008 10:27 |
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only a couple of TBS's of DATA lol.
It would be nice to have fiber optic uplink at home, then it be reasonable to host a home dedi.
Iran prefers to live in the middle ages anyways so they can route that link to my place.
WOL nick: JPNOD
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| Re: Teh Intarweb is under attack! [message #315518 is a reply to message #315016] |
Mon, 04 February 2008 23:12 |
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Interesting theory that it is a high-tech way to isolate Iran, and to tap into their communications.
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| Re: Teh Intarweb is under attack! [message #315520 is a reply to message #315518] |
Tue, 05 February 2008 00:10 |
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"...to have three undersea cables – or is it actually four cables? – cut in the same region in just a two-day span, strains credulity; the more so, when we look at how the damage has played out across the region... communication cable cutting in West Asia leaves Israel and Iraq still connected, while completely shutting down the Iranian internet. Funny how that works, isn't it?" asks a professor on his site.
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"Iran is back online, but... its traffic is now passing through the UK and the US, the latter controlling the 13 primary routers. Can you say wiretap?" queries another.
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Well, they should not have been so arrogant in the first place.
EDIT: I am pretty sure the Israelis are involved.
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| Re: Teh Intarweb is under attack! [message #315573 is a reply to message #315570] |
Tue, 05 February 2008 09:26 |
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| Blazer wrote on Tue, 05 February 2008 08:24 |
Isn't it also interesting how there is not a peep of this from the major news outlets...the sale of yahoo makes front page yet no mention of entire continents being deliberately cut off the net.
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That's just the thing though. Nobody knows that continents are being deliberately cut off. We just know that they ARE being cut off. The deliberate part is still MIA (Or at least, any evidence of such beyond the suspicions of random bloggers).
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| Re: Teh Intarweb is under attack! [message #315636 is a reply to message #315016] |
Tue, 05 February 2008 14:35 |
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The lack of ships does not prove it was deliberate.
| DarkDemin wrote on Thu, 03 August 2006 19:19 |
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