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Re: Internets failurez! [message #315022 is a reply to message #315017] Fri, 01 February 2008 16:08 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Starbuzz wrote on Fri, 01 February 2008 17:49

luv2pb wrote on Fri, 01 February 2008 09:13

Does this mean someone was h4xing and stealing their interwebz?


Someone is definitely h4xing for sure!

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c175/r315razor/Stuff/omfg_haxx_141.jpg

Blazer wrote on Fri, 01 February 2008 17:51

I already posted about that: http://www.renegadeforums.com/index.php?t=msg&goto=315016&rid=2#msg_3150 16

I think this guy is probably right:

someone on slashdot


by mgh02114 (655185) on Friday February 01, @04:14PM (#22266760)
The locations where many of the recent cable cuts have occurred (China, Pakistan, Palestine/Egypt, and now Iran) is highly suspicious. I suspect that the U.S. intelligence community is using a sub to tap into the fiberoptic line to capture all of the data. Unlike copper lines, they probably can't splice into glass fiberoptic lines without breaking the circuit for a while.

1) Cut the line somewhere roughly, so it clearly looks like an accident
2) Somewhere else far away, splice into the line using a sub, so the NSA can capture all the data (or even potentially alter it in transit)
3) Let the commercial communication providers fix the obvious break
4) Profit! (at least in terms of intelligence gathering and cyber-war capability




If that is the reason, what is the point? Isn't the point of the data being transfered across the ocean to get it from one side to the other? What is the point of intercepting it if it is coming at you anyway?

It is the same thing as catching the ball thrown by your own team and calling it an interception, in American Football.

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