Re: Three undersea cables cut: traffic greatly disturbed between Europe and Asia/Near East zone

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Keith Dawson <kdawson () slashdot org>
Date: December 19, 2008 2:53:45 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] MUST  READ  Three undersea cables cut: traffic  
greatly disturbed  between Europe and Asia/Near East zone

Early last February there was another spate of cable cutting / damage
in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf. Five went out within a week.
Some analysis at the time:

Schneier --
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/fourth_undersea.html

Bellovin --
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2008-02/2008-02-04.html

Technology Review, with maps --
http://www.technologyreview.com/web/20152/

The first two cables to go were FLAG and SeaMeWe-4 -- two of those in
the current report.

-- KDawson




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