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>De kapotte internetkabels en de verdwenen onderzeeboot

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>In het vorige blog over de gebroken kabels schreef ik als laatste update:

Renatus wijst ons op Cryptogon:

The “No Internet in Iran” Story is Bullcrap, but that Didn’t Stop 17 People from Submitting it [..] The page that all of you are submitting monitors one router, which happens to be down, at the Iran University of Science and Technology. Somehow, through the magic bullshit amplification powers of the Intertubes, the fact that one router is down at an Iranian university has snowballed into “Iran is off the air.”

Goed nieuws dus, Iran is gewoon niet afgesneden van internet. Blijft nog steeds de belangrijkste vraag openstaan: hoe kunnen vier kabels, in twee waterlichamen, in zo’n korte tijd worden afgesneden? Ankers lijken uitgesloten.

En nog een andere belangrijke vraag: houdt dit verband met de Iraanse oliebeurs?



Inmiddels is er sprake van een vijfde kabel die het begeven zou hebben.

Ondertussen schijnt de Mossad een rapport in elkaar te hebben geknutseld dat zou moeten aantonen dat Iran kernwapens kan hebben, binnen drie jaar. En waar de fok is die onderzeeboot, de USS Jimmy Carter?

In short, USS Jimmy Carter, roughly 100 feet longer than its sister boats of the new Seawolf-class because of its unique role, is a spy machine.

What does this have to do with anything? Well, first of all, the sheets and pages of information on USS Jimmy Carter’s multi-mission capabilities have all disappeared off the US Navy’s sites. Even the commissioning announcement at Commander Submarine Group Two is gone.

The second thing is this:

Internet services in Qatar have been seriously disrupted because of damage to an undersea telecoms cable linking the Gulf state to the UAE, the fourth such incident in less than a week. Qatar Telecom (Qtel) said on Sunday the cable was damaged between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE island of Das on Friday. The cause of damage is not yet known, but ArabianBusiness.com has been told unofficially the problem is related to the power system and not the result of a ship’s anchor cutting the cable, as is thought to be the case in the other three incidents.

Well actually, there is no evidence that ships anchors did anything of the sort. In fact, Egypt says ships did not sever the fiber-optic cables.

LEES VERDER bij Galloping Beaver

UPDATE 7 FEBRUARI:

Unexplainable Cutting Of Internet Cables Points To Sabotage

World Economies hang by an Internet thread

Greenback’s days in Iran

Connecting The Many Undersea Cut Cable Dots

UPDATE 7 FEBRUARI 22:12:

Falcon Kabel bij UAE “beschadigd door anker“

(wat dus iig niet voor de kabel bij Egypte geldt)

UPDATE 9 FEBRUARI:

Afbeelding: commentaar Michael Rivero over dit MSNBC-artikel

UPDATE 10 FEBRUARI:

GEBROKEN KABELS EN DE IRAANSE OLIEBEURS

UPDATE 11 FEBRUARI:

The Cable-Cutter Mystery

I was skeptical, at first, of speculation over the cutting of two cables linking the Middle East with the Internet, which had it as part of some Vast Neocon Conspiracy to isolate the region prior to a US military assault. However, when two more cables – this time, in the Persian Gulf – were mysteriously cut, I began to wonder ….

In a piece headlined “Cable cutter nutters chase conspiracy theories,” The Register goes out of its way to laugh off the prospect that what we are witnessing is a military operation, or the prelude to one, sniffing “there’s little more than suspicions to work with” since we’ve yet to reach the damaged cables. Yet, given the sort of government we are dealing with – a regime that lied us into one war, and is not-so-subtly trying to finagle us into yet another one – why shouldn’t we be suspicious? We’d have to be crazy not to be.

The Economist follows suit, sneering at “internet conspiracy theories” and denouncing the whole brouhaha as an “online frenzy” that is “way out of line.” Yet one has to wonder: four cable cuts in the past week? I’m with Steven Bellovin, a computer science professor at Columbia University, who avers:

“As a security guy, I’m paranoid, but I don’t understand the threat model here. On the other hand, four accidental failures in a week is a bit hard to swallow, too. Let’s hope there will be close, open examination of the failed parts of the cables.”

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