The BBC has a similar story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21963100
On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:41 PM, Neil J. McRae <n...@domino.org> wrote: > Via renesys > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-naval-forces-capture-3-scuba-divers-trying-to-sabotage-undersea-internet-cable/2013/03/27/dd2975ec-9725-11e2-a976-7eb906f9ed9b_story.html > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 27 Mar 2013, at 21:53, "Neil J. McRae" > <n...@domino.org<mailto:n...@domino.org>> wrote: > > quite a few EU to India cables are impacted right now 4/7 down. > > Sent from my iPad > > On 27 Mar 2013, at 18:14, "Aftab Siddiqui" > <aftab.siddi...@gmail.com<mailto:aftab.siddi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Well, it's not just SMW4 outage, we've been witnessing serious issues on > IMEWE for couple of weeks now and this outages just made it worse. > So, right now most of the traffic taking east bound routes. > Who needs DDoS at this stage, these links are already chocked up :) > > Maybe it was because of this: Global Internet Slows after 'biggest attack > in history' > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636 > > > -- > Regards, > > Aftab A. Siddiqui > > > > > --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb