Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

Randy Epstein repstein at chello.at
Fri Feb 1 23:40:24 UTC 2008


RodBeck said:

>Telecommunication facilities have rarely been targets of terrorism. There
is only one known case - the Tamil Tigers destroyed a central office in Sri
Lanka some years back. My guess is that terrorists want to kill people, not
destroy optical muxes, >Class 5 switches, and the like.

Actually, last year, Scotland Yard claimed Al Qaeda planned on blowing up
one of the Telehouse facilities in the UK:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/garfinkel/17561/

Randy

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