Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:42:02 -0000
"Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck () hiberniaatlantic com> wrote:

> Well, when you have all these cables running through narrow straits
> or converging to the same stretch of beach, it does not strike me as
> at all extraordinary.  
But they aren't near each other.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cable.html
says that the first two cuts were in the Mediterranean, near Marseille
and Alexandria; the third was in the Persian Gulf, near Dubai
(http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Internet-Outages.html).


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb