RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

["Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck () hiberniaatlantic com>]

Of course, we all know the Mossad (Israeli secret services) and CIA did it as part of the global conspiracy against the 
Middle East and Third World ...

In recent years I have restrained myself, but from time to time the 'old Rod Beck' manages to evade the supervision of 
the Super Ego (presumably you know your Freudian psychology). 

But seriously, double failures occur all the time. TAT-14 went dark for over 24 hours on December 28, 2003 when one 
cable was damaged and the switch of traffic to the other cable caused the second cable to experience a repeater 
failure. 

Probability dictates that the improbable will happen given enough time. The improbable is unlikely, not impossible. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ahmed Maged (amaged) [mailto:amaged () cisco com]
Sent: Fri 2/1/2008 6:05 PM
To: Steven M. Bellovin; Martin Hannigan
Cc: Rod Beck; Hank Nussbacher; Sean Donelan; nanog () merit edu
Subject: RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
 
Doesn't look normal to me that both cables were cut 'accidently'

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
Steven M. Bellovin
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:49 PM
To: Martin Hannigan
Cc: Rod Beck; Hank Nussbacher; Sean Donelan; nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption


Today's NY Times reports that the problem was caused by two
near-simultaneous cable failures:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cable.html