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Maybe it weren't the sharks, maybe a bunch of Win32.Worms got loose on their way to some poor antivirus free computers ... hehe.
Now seriously. Seems someone doesn't like all those $5/h web dev companies in India.
18 commentsFriday, February 1, 2008
It appears another "anchor" has cut a third major undersea Internet cable in the Middle East, this time in the Persian Gulf. Quotes are around the word anchor because that's the best explanation offered so far.
Sometimes things come in threes, but undersea cables being cut by anchors usually don’t. In this case, the cables – two in the Mediterranean, and one in the Persian Gulf –were cut in separate bodies of water, just days apart, supposedly by two different anchors. Three underwater cables in three days.
Or…an anchor from the same boat and the captain doesn't know how to read his Internet cable map?
Stranger things have happened. But if there's a fourth cable cut in the Indian Ocean we're calling shenanigans. By whom?
Our best guess: terrorist sharks.
Dubai is in the same boat, so to speak, as Egypt, India, and much of the Middle East – no or slow Internet connections for some, but for most life moves on because of backup reroutes.
Stupid terrorist sharks.
By webdev77 (WPN reader) - Fri, 02/01/2008 - 20:07
Maybe it weren't the sharks,
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Union Terrorist Sharks: Can't Fire them either
hehe. I got a good laugh from your theory. I suppose someone chummed up the cables with guts. Or, there are some rogue merchant marines in the Suez Canal and the middle east disgusted with the whole economic experiment started under clinton, not so affectionately know as outsourcing. I heard the cost of these cables went way up too. Into the hundreds of millions, call it inflation but I suspect the companies involved know they have someone by the huevos. Make the outages permanent and I would be happy. Internet in that part of the world is overated. We get Osama Bin Laden video feeds out of the middle east, Nigerian Scammers hack our banks and send us spam and we send our jobs to India. I hear these sharks are union and mormon so they make big families and you can't fire them. Expect the outage to last a long time. Cheers. Economic advice for India: go back to what you do best (curry and carpets). God Bless the Merchant Marines. Economics is and has always been warfare. JW