Undersea cable cuts intentional

[HavocXphere]

Egypt catches divers cutting Internet cable amid disruptions

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Egypt’s coastguard caught three divers cutting through an undersea Internet cable on Wednesday, the army said, the first suggestion criminals might be involved in days of severed connections and disruptions online.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/527762/egypt-catches-divers-cutting-internet-cable-amid-disruptions/

Oh this is going to be interesting...

 

[Necuno]

Must be mweb's competition

 

[Lightscribe]

Simpson tells TechCentral that the divers were arrested just hundreds of metres from the Egyptian shoreline, where the cable was fairly easily accessible.

Last week’s break to the Seacom cable, on the other hand, occurred nearly 20km from the shore in much deeper water. Simpson says the cable break also had all of the characteristics of a having been cut by a ship’s anchor being dragged along the sea bed, making it more unlikely the cut was due to sabotage.

“You can never say never, but I’d be very surprised [if it was sabotage],” Simpson says.

http://www.techcentral.co.za/sabotage-not-suspected-in-seacom-cut-ceo/39224/

Still, Seacom said that sabotage is an unlikely reason for its recent outage, due to "the specific location [of the affected cable], distance from shore, much greater depth, the presence of a large anchored vessel on the fault site which appears to be the cause of the damage, and other characteristics of the event."

"The final cause of the cable cut will be determined once the cable is repaired in the coming weeks and the damaged section is recovered from the seabed and inspected," Seacom concluded.

More than two years ago, Internet access in Egypt was cut off amidst the Arab Spring uprising. Other governments in the region have used the same tactic in order to stop citizens from organizing via social networks like Facebook or Twitter or communicating with the outside world.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417173,00.asp

I would guess the ship is acting on Morsi's orders.

 

[TJ99]

Wait, so is this Israel, or the enemies of Israel doing this? I think we need a killadoob opinion on this matter.

On a more serious note, Egypt is ruled by basically the 3rd least believable group (after FOX News and Kim Jong Un) in the world so anything coming out of Egypt's government is to be taken with a tonne of salt.

Either way, I'd be seriously pissed off if it was actually proven that SEACOM's legendary unreliability was linked to disputes over whose imaginary dad was strongest.

 

[HavocXphere]

too slow apparently...

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...pting-To-Cut-Undersea-Internet-Cable-In-Egypt

 

[nfbs]

That cable is not what Seacom uses so the verdict is still out for the reason for the Seacom outage and I hope they are transparent when they do get to the broken cable.