Seriously, wtf?

4 times? Accidental?

/my ass

wow. potentially scary...


/it's a series of anchors

4 times in a week? That's a bit odd.

joking aside, this really is worrying... my tinfoil is pretty loose but still...

Look, I'm not saying anything, but that's the last time I call tech support only to have them tell me to reset my modem.

/I did that already you farks!!

Serious question. How much do our military operations in the area rely on internet connectivity?

And it's purely coincidental that all these cable cuts have left Iran with zero internet connectivity.

JacksBlack: Serious question. How much do our military operations in the area rely on internet connectivity?

I'm fairly sure the military uses their own satellite network for important stuff.

Abzzstain: And it's purely coincidental that all these cable cuts have left Iran with zero internet connectivity.

That is apparently not the case. The location that is often pinged for traffic data in Iran is down. I don't claim to understand this, but that's what I've read.

Also, google Iranian sites, you can get to most or all of them.

Abzzstain: And it's purely coincidental that all these cable cuts have left Iran with zero internet connectivity.

hmmmm (new window)

hmmmmmmmm (new window)


maybe there are just lots of loose anchors in the region...?

JacksBlack: That is apparently not the case. The location that is often pinged for traffic data in Iran is down. I don't claim to understand this, but that's what I've read.

Also, google Iranian sites, you can get to most or all of them.

ah ok, so it's just one location in Iran that's buggered?

Egypt: No ships present when cable damaged

So, should we be preparing to welcome our new cable-cutting anchor overlords or what?

This anchor can damage my cable any day.

Molavian: I'm fairly sure the military uses their own satellite network for important stuff.

We do. I used to work at the CENTAF NOSC in S. Carolina. We remotely monitored/maintained/troubleshot the networks for 27 locations in the middle east. It's all satellites.

Perhaps an unknown government is testing it's ability to interrupt the internet.

Cloverfield monster unavailable for comment.

Two things come to mind:

1. US military and/or intelligence trying to cut Iran off from the outside world in prep for some kind of something.

2. Fanatical elements inside Iran trying to cut them off from the corrupting influence of the Internet.

dramboxf: Two things come to mind:

1. US military and/or intelligence trying to cut Iran off from the outside world in prep for some kind of something.

2. Fanatical elements inside Iran trying to cut them off from the corrupting influence of the Internet.

I was going to go with #1, but then I saw the link above that said Israel is unaffected. So I'll add option #1a, which is that the US and/or Israel might be doing it.

Oh and, kick, me, replies, these.

There's almost nothing that happens in that neck of the woods that the US doesn't know about or took part in.

Just sayin'

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." - Auric Goldfinger

While I don't have any hard data on the normal rates for cable failures, my instincts suggest four in a week seems a little high for chance. The question would be, who plans to do something that would make isolating that chunk of Asia's Internet from the rest of the planet and/or vice versa? President Dubya is an obvious suspect, but far from the only one; internal purges aren't out of the question.

How are they going to have sex without the internet?

BearToy: Cloverfield monster unavailable for comment.

Was hoping no one went here yet, D'oh.

Was going to say TIDOwave not available for comment.

Lets play a little Blind Man's Bluff (p)

flumpth: This anchor can damage my cable any day.

+1

crypticsatellite: I wonder...

Nice find.

crypticsatellite: I wonder...

Caaaarrrrttter!

/Somethings going on
//This isn't coincidence

I think Iran, or China is involved. Disrupting communications is a classic tactical maneuver.

I haven't had my tinfoil hat on for ages, but I've worried that something might happen between the Super Bowl and Super Tuesday to screw up voting patterns.

/don't feed my paranoia

T-Servo: /don't feed my paranoia

Apparently the last time a load of muslim/middle eastern websites were shut down was by the US a few days before 9/11.

US pulls the plug on muslim websites. Guardian 10th Sep 2001. (new window)


/relax, i'm just feeding the paranoia
//2 very different situations
///i hope...

Ships' anchors are the only natural predator for undersea cables.

flumpth: This anchor can damage my cable any day.

Nicely done!

I was going t say "Some people are already blaming it as a zionist conspiracy on blogs, bwahah what a bunch of idiots" but then someone already said that here.

This communications disruption can mean only one thing: Invasion

Molavian: 4 times in a week? That's a bit odd.

I see Captain Obvious found this thread.

CravenMorehead: Molavian: 4 times in a week? That's a bit odd.
I see Captain Obvious found this thread.

Captain Obvious says things everyone knows.

Snarfangel: Captain Obvious says things everyone knows.

Hey, oh, thanks, Capn- oh, I see what you did there.

You said something obvious about Captain Obvious, so people would say "Hey, oh, thanks, Capn- oh, I see what you did there".

I blame Bush for this.

tonesskin: I blame Bush for this.

and I blame Global Warming.

So, now that we've got Bush, Joooos, Global Warming, let's add Al Qaeda and Gypsies, then we're done

I bet that their tubes are clogged.

Tatsuma: tonesskin: I blame Bush for this.

and I blame Global Warming.

So, now that we've got Bush, Joooos, Global Warming, let's add Al Qaeda and Gypsies, then we're done

You forgot Poland.

So Bush has finally gone insane and is going to attack another country in a mad rush to justify his legacy?

tonesskin: You forgot Poland.

Everyone always forgets Poland

czarangelus: This is obviously a plot of the US/UK/Israel Axis in preparation to attack yet another Muslim country. If you think otherwise, you couldn't be more naïve.

Yeah, czar and Tatsuma will have a slap-fight! YAY!

czarangelus: This is obviously a plot of the US/UK/Israel Axis in preparation to attack yet another Muslim country. If you think otherwise, you couldn't be more naïve.

I'm glad you can lay back and just have a laugh, once in a while