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Internet failure hits two continents
- tlrobinson 19y agoIf a boat's anchor can accidentally sever a major backbone cutting off several countries from the Internet, just thing what a terrorist could deliberately do... I've always wondered how you would go about fixing a cable deep in the ocean.
- pchristensen 19y agoHere's a ridiculously long but very interesting article (well, basically a book) about undersea and overland telecom/network cables. Worth the read when you have [a lot of] time. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
- mhb 19y agoIt's by Neal Stephenson which, I suppose, might augur well (Snow Crash) or ill (Quicksilver).