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   Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 21:22:03 JST Bill Woodcock

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   Careful repeating this, it contains a lot of misinformation; perhaps disinformation. The only source for the attribution to the Houthis is a single anonymous Twitter account. It's actually three cables not four (Seacom and TGN are the same cable on that segment) and the interarrival time of these outages is not out-of-the-ordinary.
   
   Also, there's no observed effect yet, in the sense that all traffic observed thus far is being successfully re-routed, so there's no "harm" in the sense of public impact.
   
   To my view, the most important issue is that cable repair ships are, while well-insured, also slow and expensive to build, so it may be that the reason we've stacked up three outages at once is because nobody feels like risking the future revenue of a cable ship that ventures into an area with live anti-ship missile fire.
   
   Also worthy of note that we've been in exactly this situation before, in 2008 and 2011.
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     Aure Free Press :verified: (free_press@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 21:22:05 JST Aure Free Press :verified:

     Four underwater communications cables between Saudi Arabia and Djibouti have been struck out of commission in recent months, presumably as a result of attacks by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, according to an exclusive report in the Israeli news site Globes.
     #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Yeman #Houthis

     https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/article-788888

     Kevin Beaumont repeated this.