{"id":504,"date":"2008-02-05T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/02\/05\/bringing-down-the-web\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T22:39:00","slug":"bringing-down-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/02\/05\/bringing-down-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Down the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engadget (but strangely, no mainstream news sites?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/02\/05\/fourth-undersea-cable-cut-near-uae-suspicions-rise\/\">is reporting<\/a> that a fourth underseas fiber cable has been pierced in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>People are now starting to draw the conclusion I draw the second time: something fishy is going on. (Err, no pun intended there&#8230;)\u00a0 Underseas cables don&#8217;t get cut that often, but for four of them to get cut in a week, and all to a war-torn region?<\/p>\n<p>Someone is pretty clearly trying to cut off the Internet to that part of the world, and they&#8217;re doing a pretty good job. Fortunately, the Internet has always been designed to route around failures like this, but it seems like they&#8217;ve taken out a huge chunk of the backbone to some parts of the world. There was an earthquake to that region, too, though. But still, I&#8217;m suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some are saying that the fourth line wasn&#8217;t actually cut, but apparently just suffered technical issues not related to the underseas line itself. But still, I&#8217;m calling shenanigans. I&#8217;m just not sure which motive is at play: are they resisting Western influence? Trying to prevent technology? Obsessed with censorship? There are multiple motives, just as there are many, many possible culprits.<\/p>\n<p>Although I have to hand it to them: those <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Submarine_communications_cable\">underseas cables look<\/a> incredibly resilient, and I can&#8217;t imagine that too many people know where every single one is located.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engadget (but strangely, no mainstream news sites?) is reporting that a fourth underseas fiber cable has been pierced in the Middle East. People are now starting to draw the conclusion I draw the second time: something fishy is going on. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/02\/05\/bringing-down-the-web\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,9,12,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computers","category-cool-links","category-humanitarianism","category-interesting","category-politics","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}