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Submarine cables cut in the Red Sea.Authorities looking at potential terrorism

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Re: Submarine cables cut in the Red Sea.Authorities looking at potential terrorism

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Didn'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?

Re: Submarine cables cut in the Red Sea.Authorities looking at potential terrorism

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Didn'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.

Re: Submarine cables cut in the Red Sea.Authorities looking at potential terrorism

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I'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).

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