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Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 15:17:45 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Roland Dobbins wrote:
There are always corner-cases like the Tamil Tiger incident, and people don't always act rationally even in the context of their own perceived (as opposed to actual) self-interest, but I just don't see any terrorist groups nor any governments involved in some kind of cable-cutting plot, as it's diametrically opposed to their commonality of interests (i.e., the terrorist groups want the comms to stay up so that they can make use of them, and the governments want the comms to stay up so that they can monitor the terrorist group comms).
History is sometimes a useful subject. May I suggest the book"The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics 1851-1945" by Daniel Headrick. Let's cut all the cables is an old
idea, and has been tried before. As usual, things didn't go as planned. Treaties exist because it was in everyone's self-interest to create the treaty. If any international terrorist or government espionage groups are reading NANOG: Hello. Please don't cut our cables. Thanks.
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- RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Rod Beck (Feb 01)
- Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 01)
- RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Rod Beck (Feb 01)
- Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 01)
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- RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Rod Beck (Feb 01)
- RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Randy Epstein (Feb 01)
- Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption George William Herbert (Feb 01)
- Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Roland Dobbins (Feb 01)
- Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Sean Donelan (Feb 02)
- Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Mike Lewinski (Feb 01)
- Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Michael Painter (Feb 01)
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