I thought this was too odd to be coincidence, too:
Someone page Dick Cheney and the Glomar Explorer. Five undersea cables that carry internet traffic in the Middle East have been cut one by one in sequence. I thought this was weird, and Terry Karney is telling us what his thoughts are – as in someone wanted to tap the suckers. Can’t imagine who.
The rundown of cut cables in the region includes the FLAG Europe-Asia cable near Alexandria, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran, SeaMeWe-4 near Alexandria, SeaMeWe-4 near Penang, Malaysia, and FLAG near the Dubai coast.
See also this map and article. I don’t know if I buy all of the stuff in this article, but there’s some interesting further details there.
Bruce Schneier blogs on this. More interesting postings here, here, along with a Neil Stephenson story on laying cable in Wired, and an article on the UK interception of the Zimmerman telegram due to undersea cables being cut.
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