Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

From: Bill Stewart (no email)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 19:36:28 EST

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    On Feb 1, 2008 2:37 PM, Steven M. Bellovin <> wrote:
    > > (either that, or the backhoe operators' union has decided there's
    > > better money to be made on water than on land.)

    Guys named Bubba can get fishing licenses just as easily as backhoe
    drivers' licenses.
    One of my customers in the forestry business ran their own cables
    along their railroad tracks,
    and every year during hunting season they'd have problems with guys named Bubba
    shooting at birds on the cables at bridge crossings.

    > Yah. I'm a security guy, and hence suspicious by nature -- our slogan
    > is "Paranoia is our Profession" -- and I'm getting very concerned. The
    > old saying comes to mind: "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence,
    > but the third time is enemy action".

    My business card often says "Technical Marketing", which means I'm supposed
    to have some wide-grinning explanation about sychronicity of root causes;
    obviously this is some problem with ship navigation software not using
    the correct GPS datum,
    so it's a common-mode operator-interface error that's not the fault of
    either the telcos or Vendor C's or J's equipment. Funny how Iran's
    just accidentally fallen off the net, though.

    I forget the French and Arabic equivalent names for Bubba, but I still
    think it's him and Murphy.

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                 Thanks;     Bill
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