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Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:51:56 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Yah. I'm a security guy, and hence suspicious by nature -- our slogan is "Paranoia is our Profession" -- and I'm getting very concerned. The old saying comes to mind: "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but the third time is enemy action". The alternative some common mode failure -- perhaps the storm others have noted.
It may just be the normal growing pains networks go through as they reach a certain size and those "minor" problems become "major" problems. When the Internet was sparser in the USA, we had similar "concindences." 1997: Backhoes in Concert http://www.nanog.org/nanog-tshirts/nanog11.jpg
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- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Randy Bush (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Jeff Shultz (Feb 05)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption George William Herbert (Feb 05)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Feb 02)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Randy Bush (Feb 02)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Bill Stewart (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Bill Stewart (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Sean Donelan (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Scott Francis (Feb 01)
- Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Martin Barry (Feb 02)