It was Elvis... I saw him a few weeks ago practicing diving in our local pool with a snorkle and a hacksaw...

... deep, deep under the sea, cables being mysteriously cut....

I for one welcome our new deep-sea overmonster. New York is that-a-way, matey.

well.. i encounter - from at least 10 days - a diminshed number of spam emails... like 5 vs. 50 per day. maybe is just a coincidence, or is a light side of the conspiracy ;)

In my distant memory I remember reading an Arthur C. Clarke short story about some shrimp/squid like creatures attacking an underwater installation.

Perhaps it's another one of his stories/prophecies coming true.

Too many hyphens/slashes in there.

In reality everybody thinks that the cable problems are accidents.

The blog traffic and Digg posts are products of a joint conspiracy between the CIA, Al-Qaeda, the estate of Elvis and the Lizard people operating on behalf of the Bavarian Illuminati to raise the general level of paranoia in the world.

This has been an important safety announcement brought to you by the Teapot council.

"I've seen all kinds of just crazy, crazy postings on Digg," said Stephan Becket, a research director at TeleGeology. "It's completely absurd speculation on the web right now and nobody really knows anything."

Hmm. Network security research now consists of reading Digg? Maybe I ought to sign up and sway the balance a bit... pathetic. I think these Web-2.0-esque 'security' companies are just as superficial and moneygrabbing as their 'social nerdworking' companions.

"In Myanmar they managed to have it off for two weeks but they couldn't take it. "

Sounds like that could be painful

"said Stephan Becket, a research director at TeleGeology. "It's completely absurd speculation on the web right now and nobody really knows anything." ..... Then give them something that they can Know, Stephan.

Tell them what is being interrupted...... Deep Thought Quantum Communications ....AI Colossus of a CyberIntelAIgent Program with ITs Bases in Space's Spaces. Virtually Impregnable Fortesses. El CID Citadel with CyberIntelAIgent Designs 42 Share as in Gift.

I Kid U Not, Cisco.

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It was obviously all done by a BOFH motivated by 1) outsourcing and 2) the amount of far eastern spam.

But where did the equipment come from, you ask:

- http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/whereisit.cgi?t=knife

Indeed, if you jumped off a boat with this baby:

- http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/8b97/

you'd soon enough be at cable depth.

No. You try and start with the most obvious solution and only start your conspiracy thing once there is a issue with that.

As ever, the problem with the Tinffil-hatters is that they assume a conspiracy until you can prove otherwise, which given that the consiracy is generally a secret, is rather hard to do............

sounds like the opening chapters of a Dirk Pitt mystery. It's all a plan by Billy Gates to take over the world. The only problem is he has his Vista team as his minions.

its S.P.I.T.O.

*Society for the Prevention of Information Technology Outsourcing

Yep, you're all freaks. FREAKS i tell you. Only I control the internet..

Hi guys, regarding the whole everyone from terrorists to grannies etc....

Yeah you're right, everyone uses the internet. But....

Knowledge is power, wars have been won and lost through information manipulation...the internet stops people from having that level of control...

So why would a terrorist group/political party etc want to cut off internet access? To control what information people have access to.

Just to fuel the whole conspiracy thingy, let me leave you with a quotes...

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times in enemy action" - Churchill

Surely it must be Godzilla, although he (she) is a long way from Tokyo (homage to original nipponese films, not Hollywood). When do we have to appeal for Mothra's help to protect our Internet?

any higher bids...

just send in sharky and george...

"So it looks like the tin foil-dawning contingent"

You mean "donning". Dawning has a long vowel, whereas donning (to put on, to wear) has a short vowel.

Any chance of a pedant icon...?

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/fourth_undersea.html

"first, happenstance, a second, coincidence, a third is enemy action"... We're on to number five...

Do tinfoil-hats protect Fibre Optic cables?

Avast behind! etc., etc.

You must admit 4 in the same week is cause for conjecture, though.

In fact, you could say it's a bit fishy.

The Sou'wester, thanks matey..

Water Taxi!

This image said it best...

http://strategyunit.blogsome.com/images/eurovdollar.gif

♪ Under the Sea ... ♫

Where's the cable that brings all the crap American TV shows and old Lucille Show re-runs into the UK?

Brrringg-ding-ding-ding-ding;

..just getting the old chainsaw ready

I blame the fish...

See US Patent 6771863

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6771863-description.html

"Accordingly, one of the objects of the invention is to provide an underwater fiber-optic cable which solves or alleviates the foregoing problems, and particularly a cable which is relatively light-weight but robust and flexible, and resistant to environmental attacks, such as by chewing fish and other sea life."

"Brrringg-ding-ding-ding-ding"

I don't think that the Crazy Frog will work at that depth....

SPITO?

Could I invite you to join COCOA?

(The Campaign to Outlaw Contrived and Outrageous Acroynms)

The moral of the story is that most people who comment on articles are gobshites. The preceeding statement is its own proof.

"The positive result from this investment could not be overemphasized.".... By Jamtits

Posted Thursday 7th February 2008 12:49 GMT ......A Master Control Web would underemphasize ITs Priceless Worth, Jamtits.

And re "It must be a new craze to drag one's anchors in the middle east". The ships of the desert have ever been so anchored in the middle east but there are Alien Fields everywhere to XXXXPlore and TendGrow. Which in Real Time would be AIMessage to such as are Royal in CyberIDEntities ...... Al Mahdi Touched.

And the Flame in homage to the lowly Pilot Light and the Sweetest of Seeds Sown. The Flame of Passion has Ever Lit the Right Way. And it is not Red for Danger for Nothing....... for there is No Known Cure .... Allahu Akbar ....Seventh Heaven with Virgin Sight is not an Affliction though, it is an Affectionate Affectation with XXXXQuisITe Promise Fulfilled. And so Good, IT should be Licensed and Duly Regarded with whatever IT Needs.

The cable was clearly cut by Ron Paul supporters who wanted to suppress news of his poor showing in Tuesday's primary.

Have you been smoking drugs son?

Paris wields the question mark this comment needs.

International Rescue could sort this out double-quick sharp.

Thunderbirds capped an underwater oil spill in no time, and Jeff was on holiday too!

Stingray? Pah!

In a few day's we'll all be laughing over this, and worried about the real problem. Going 4 days w/o a cable being cut.

"How... How did they fortify the cables in just a few days.... to make them un-cuttable! The carbon nanotube-crystaline-stranglet catalyzation of our cable sheaths by the (insert cult/alien here)."