Undersea cable cuts disrupts voice, Internet to Middle East, South Asia

[kevyn]

Is anyone else as weirded out by this as I am?

This doesn't feel like an accident. This feels like information warfare, or perhaps PsyOps. The timing and geographical location of these cuts seems more than a little coincidental.

According to the Internet Traffic Report, Iran is being hardest hit by this disruption.

I am really *really* suspicious about what's going on here. And despite what a lot of people are saying (tongue-in-cheek) on BoingBoing, I really don't think it's Godzilla.

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[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

A fifth cable may have been cut now, BoingBoing reports.

I suppose it could just be random coincidence, but I am really beginning to wonder if someone isn't trying to cut off the Middle East from the rest of the world. Something like 90% of all internet/voice traffic to the region goes through undersea cables.

To paraphrase The Phantom Menace, "A communications disruption can mean only one thing: invasion."

Here's hoping I'm just being paranoid.