UN: Saboteurs May Have Cut Mideast Telecom Cables
February 19th, 2008“I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if the Them were to bring the Internet down as a false flag operation, blame Bin Laden, et al. and provide the pretext for the economic collapse that is, in reality, long over due. If the Internet comes down… it will indicate that the Them feel that there is nothing left to loot and that some hellish system of martial law is necessary in order to maintain control.”
“Anyone who tells you that this is some sort of fluke is a f*@$^!& idiot, and that’s being kind.”
Is the USS Bin Laden awaiting its next assignment in Davy Jones’ Locker?
Via: AFP:
Damage to several undersea telecom cables that caused outages across the Middle East and Asia could have been an act of sabotage, the International Telecommunication Union said on Monday.
“We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago,” the UN agency’s head of development, Sami al-Murshed, told AFP.
Five undersea cables were damaged in late January and early February leading to disruption to Internet and telephone services in parts of the Middle East and south Asia.
There has been speculation that the sheer number of cables being cut over such a short period was too much of a coincidence and that sabotage must have been involved.
India’s Flag telecom revealed on February 7 that the cut to the Falcon cable between the United Arab Emirates and Oman was caused by a ship’s anchor. But mystery shrouds what caused another four reported cuts.
“Some experts doubt the prevailing view that the cables were cut by accident, especially as the cables lie at great depths under the sea and are not passed over by ships,” Murshed said on the sidelines of a conference on cyber-crime held in Gulf state of Qatar.
The Falcon cable has since been repaired, along with the Flag Europe Asia (FEA) cable which was damaged off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. The status of the remaining cable is still unclear.
They used boxcutters, im sure.
they may not have had to cut anything, given the possibility, maybe likelihood, of prebuilt taps -which leads me to think if they’d built taps in already, why not switches in the same box, switches remotely controlled. no ships nearby needed. but then i could be wrong.
repair ships *were* sent out. supposedly. if true, well… all i know we are stuck between the wisdom of not blindly speculating and our complete ignorance.
but if it looks like a fish and smells fishy…
“…but the NSA is known by fiber
guys to have at least two of the very expensive and very specialized subs
necessary…”
http://cryptome.org/cable-cuts.htm
I have a feeling that in the future projects like Gnu Radio may become essential for the Internet to function in any shape, if the military powers decide they want to take take net in general offline…
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/
“GNU Radio is a collection of software that when combined with minimal hardware, allows the construction of radios where the actual waveforms transmitted and received are defined by software. What this means is that the digital modulation schemes used in today’s high performance wireless devices are now software problems.”
What this means is that all you need to run a digital broadcast/receive station is a cheap radio card for any PC. GNURadio then transforms this PC with a radio card into ANY kind of radio frequency station – it can be a WIMAX or WLAN station, FM / AM radio, Digital TV station – whatever!
And the software is free to be modified, free to use, radio cards very cheap. With these simple tools anyone can build wireless networks of any kind and they can be higly portable – a laptop and antenna is all it needs. They have built networks like this in Tibet with volunteer efforts.
thanks for the link, ruralninja. interesting.
along the lines of something i’ve been saying a while now: packet radio.
http://zuma.vip.warped.com/packetradio.png