Red Sea cables have been damaged, disrupting internet traffic

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Post by Sparkenstein » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:11 PM UTC

Red Sea cables have been damaged, disrupting internet traffic
cnn.com

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Post by vb-8448 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:27 PM UTC

I wonder if this is somehow related with meta's down.

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Post by bdamm » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:29 PM UTC

As I understand it, the problem is not so much that they have been damaged, but rather that they have been damaged inside the combat zone and so repair craft are not likely to enter the area, thus the damage will remain.

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Post by edhelas » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:29 PM UTC

And suddenly most of the World discover that the Internet is "just a bunch of cables connected together".

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Post by rany_ » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:29 PM UTC

Is this related to the Meta outage?

Edit: answering myself here, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605925 says that this actually happened a week ago but the media reports are just very delayed. Basically it is actually unrelated.