Line cut in Mediterranean?

Wed Mar 27 23:53:18 UTC 2013

The BBC has a similar story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21963100

On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:41 PM, Neil J. McRae <neil at DOMINO.ORG> wrote:

> Via renesys
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-naval-forces-capture-3-scuba-divers-trying-to-sabotage-undersea-internet-cable/2013/03/27/dd2975ec-9725-11e2-a976-7eb906f9ed9b_story.html
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 27 Mar 2013, at 21:53, "Neil J. McRae" <neil at domino.org<mailto:neil at domino.org>> wrote:
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> quite a few EU to India cables are impacted right now 4/7 down.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On 27 Mar 2013, at 18:14, "Aftab Siddiqui" <aftab.siddiqui at gmail.com<mailto:aftab.siddiqui at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Well, it's not just SMW4 outage, we've been witnessing serious issues on
> IMEWE for couple of weeks now and this outages just made it worse.
> So, right now most of the traffic taking east bound routes.
> Who needs DDoS at this stage, these links are already chocked up :)
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> Maybe it was because of this: Global Internet Slows after 'biggest attack
> in history'
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
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> Regards,
> 
> Aftab A. Siddiqui
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