Submarine cables cut in the Red Sea.Authorities looking at potential terrorism
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#3Any confirmation on this? Their twitter profile links a site with a self-signed certificate, I didn't look further.
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#4Didn't the Houthis threaten to do this last month?
https://gulfif.org/the-next-casualty-of-the-red-sea-attacks-...
What's the practical effect of this? Other than some inconvenient latency and decreased redundancy...not as much as the headlines suggested?
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#7Didn't the Houthis threaten to do this last month? https://gulfif.org/the-next-casualty-of-the-red-sea-attacks-... What's the practical effect of this? Other than some inconvenient latency and decreased redundancy...not as much as the headlines suggested?
Can't be cheap to repair it.
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Israel is on the Mediterranean, not the red sea. Those packets would have to take an extremely circuitous route to have been cut off from the west
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#9I'm sorry, cutting undersea cables is not terrorism.
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#10I'm sorry, cutting undersea cables is not terrorism.
Yeah I don't think I'd call it terrorism by any reasonable definition. An act of aggression certainly but increasing latency/decreasing bandwidth due to a set of lost links is not by any means terrorism.
Nobody was physically harmed and it shouldn't have any real effect on essential or life preserving services (unless those services are incredibly poorly designed at which point the developers/maintainers should be held at fault).