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Fourth undersea cable cut near UAE, suspicions rise

engadget.com — For the fourth time in a week, an undersea communications cable in the Mediterranean Sea has apparently been cut, and while no official reports of subversion have surfaced just yet, things are beginning to get suspicious.

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  • tbenathan, on 02/05/2008, -31/+729This is no longer suspicious - this is an act of Modern Warfare. This better be front page news in all the international papers, or else they're complicit.
  • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 02/05/2008, -63/+659I M IN UR SEEZ, CUTTIN UR KABLES
  • JSKYs, on 02/05/2008, -27/+534It's the Scientologist.
    there trying to cut off Anonymous.....
  • YouEEEeeediot, on 02/05/2008, -7/+437Hear that sound? It's the collective LOL from the people who have had their jobs outsourced.
  • romistrub, on 02/05/2008, -4/+391Engadget comment sums this up perfectly, I think:

    "First time is an accident. Second time as a coincidence. Third time it's a conspiracy.

    So what does that make the fourth time - profit???"
  • coyoteblue, on 02/05/2008, -14/+395I would say this is nothing if
    A) this sort of thing had happened before
    B) it was spread out all over the globe and
    C) if there hadn't been cables like this lying undisturbed for over 100 years

    somethings goin on
  • inactive, on 02/05/2008, -41/+412.
  • plasticated, on 02/05/2008, -22/+360Tin foil hats on people, this is starting to look very bad!!
  • rmw132, on 02/05/2008, -4/+335I see this as a new mission in Call of Duty 5: "Defend the cable lines"
  • rmccs0x, on 02/05/2008, -7/+321*****, its a lobster revolution!
  • dustinhyle, on 11/10/2009, -9/+309Fourth time in one week really makes you wonder if it is intentional.
  • Kumah, on 02/05/2008, -15/+314Don't know why I dugg you up. Something about that little pixel reminded me of just how small I am compared to the whole universe.
  • calon9, on 02/05/2008, -7/+294I dugg you up because I know that your full comment would've been there, had it not been for cut undersea internet cables.
  • jetblackz4, on 02/05/2008, -5/+208That explains the decrease in spam.
  • oduska, on 02/05/2008, -4/+199Good point.
  • sockpuppets, on 02/05/2008, -8/+181AQUACAT HAZ ADAPTED.
  • swrostmore, on 02/05/2008, -4/+144During the crackdown in Burma/Myanmar, the only way information was able to be released from the country was through the internet. From the tinfoil hat perspective, cutting these cables would be in preparation for some sort of atrocity, the coverup of which could only be accomplished if the civilian population of the target country had no way to disseminate news about what was happening.
  • inactive, on 02/05/2008, -4/+114No, fourth time in a week is CONFIRMATION it's intentional.
  • sockpuppets, on 02/05/2008, -8/+115Apuaman was spotted with a turban on. The justice league has been compromised.
  • The_Wallbanger, on 02/05/2008, -9/+112NSA routing all Mid-East traffic through their gates?
  • paintpro, on 02/05/2008, -8/+111Buried for making me think I had a dead pixel.
  • HiKevinRose, on 02/05/2008, -3/+105---//---
    snip snip
  • tuxidomasx, on 02/05/2008, -16/+109it'd be awesome if it was somehow part of the Cloverfield viral marketing campaign.
  • inactive, on 02/05/2008, -2/+86"Communications disruption can mean only one thing: invasion!"
  • lnlogauge, on 02/05/2008, -3/+86The 4th time in a week, yet its just now raising suspicions?
  • romistrub, on 02/05/2008, -1/+83I don't know why, but I laughed at this. Seems like the understatement of the century ;)
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  • SteelChicken, on 02/05/2008, -1/+75war
  • qwertydvorak, on 02/05/2008, -3/+74it's because the cables are black.
  • sp3kter, on 02/05/2008, -2/+72war = profit
    redundant
  • Suprfire, on 02/05/2008, -6/+7520,000 leagues under the sea
  • NeverReturnKid, on 02/05/2008, -1/+69How deep are these cables?
  • norris, on 02/05/2008, -10/+77I don't want to sound like a nut but there are a lot of things that could cause this.

    1. techtonic / volcanic activity
    2. special forces divers
    3. terrorists with an anchor and a speedboat
    and as rmccs0x pointed out
    4. a lobster revolution
  • paintpro, on 02/05/2008, -7/+73Easy tiger, I was joking. And to correct you, I am a LAZY, gluttonous, egotistical American. As such, I believe that voting takes to much effort. I will abstain and then complain about the outcome. Now if you will excuse me I have some doritos to eat while pretending to work.
  • CrazedLeper, on 02/05/2008, -21/+83Clearly, this is a coincidence. Debris from the Twin Towers has just reached the cables and...
  • Ndiggnation, on 02/05/2008, -3/+63I've got my bets on Davy Jones..
  • hillkiwi, on 02/05/2008, -0/+58"Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. But three times, Mr Bond, is enemy action."
  • macbookpromat, on 02/05/2008, -6/+62***** man that's deep, it's the type of thing one of my friends would say under the influence of certain substances.
  • Pissoff, on 02/05/2008, -1/+57... doesn't care about undersea cables.
  • GeorgeWKush, on 02/05/2008, -5/+60Life, liberty and the pursuit of Internet.
  • inactive, on 02/05/2008, -6/+58This is what happens before the U.S attacks Iran so everything stays on that side of the world. We won't know anything about it. DUM DUM DUM!

    /sarcasm.......

    ....or not.
  • LastDitchHero, on 02/05/2008, -7/+59Maybe the US was pissed about our broadband speeds so we decided to make the rest of the world suffer.
  • inactive, on 02/05/2008, -3/+54It's not much of a swim for Seal or other covert ops that deploy from a submarine (underwater) equipped with rebreathers (no air bubbles) and the mini-sub or other propulsion device that gets them to their destination and back to the sub.
    Seriously, the chances of ***** like this happening at random are infinitesimally small. You'd have to have your head up your ass to think this kind of thing is normal.
  • inactive, on 02/05/2008, -8/+59CIA
  • Chirp08, on 02/05/2008, -1/+50id rather play the role of the guy trying to cut the cables.
  • bobbyi, on 02/05/2008, -0/+47I'd rather by the cable, trying to valiantly defend myself and maintain internet access for all.
  • FLarsen, on 02/05/2008, -1/+47Maybe he IS under the influence of a certain substance, and maybe he even is your friend. You can't really know.
  • HerrEisenheim, on 02/05/2008, -19/+64This sort of thing has happened before. Not to this degree. IIRC, there was a big failure with some lines from the US to Japan and mainland Asia a while ago.

    And these cables have hardly been lying undisturbed for over 100 years. The transistor wasn't even invented until 1947, and there really wasn't much you could do before that. We were still using tubes and radio before that. The data cables we use today are all fiber, and the first fiber systems were pioneered by AT&T's Bell Labs in the late 1970's. That probably didn't even start rolling until the around 1985. So really, we haven't seem something like this in the last 20 years. You were only off by a factor of five though.
  • Rahodeb, on 02/05/2008, -2/+47The one hiding Megatron in the Hoover Dam?!
  • Hillsfar, on 02/05/2008, -8/+53Tin foil hats? How about divers with scuba gear? No ships in the area? They don't need ships. Just divers and good swimmers. It makes me wonder whether it's Al Qaeda... or Filipino construction workers pissed off at the virtual slavery conditions they are working under.
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