Submarine cables cut in the Red Sea.Authorities looking at potential terrorism

[bastawhiz]

Didn't the Houthis threaten to do this last month?

https://gulfif.org/the-next-casualty-of-the-red-sea-attacks-...

What's the practical effect of this? Other than some inconvenient latency and decreased redundancy...not as much as the headlines suggested?

[dontknowmuch]

Can't be cheap to repair it.

[crtasm]

Any confirmation on this? Their twitter profile links a site with a self-signed certificate, I didn't look further.

[bluish29]

Authorities of whom, the tweet is lacking a source or even information about the accident. Not to mention jumping to a terrorism case without any other details.

I don't know how this is on front page.

[pyvpx]

precisely. this simply inflammatory

[olliej]

I'm sorry, cutting undersea cables is not terrorism.

[jacoblambda]

Yeah I don't think I'd call it terrorism by any reasonable definition. An act of aggression certainly but increasing latency/decreasing bandwidth due to a set of lost links is not by any means terrorism.

Nobody was physically harmed and it shouldn't have any real effect on essential or life preserving services (unless those services are incredibly poorly designed at which point the developers/maintainers should be held at fault).

[chucke1992]

But it is a terrorism. By cutting cables you literally can decimate the whole international network for a bunch of countries. Basically for example cut the access to any server outside of intranet.

[XorNot]

Terrorism[1] is committing crime for political purposes, rather then for personal gain, and this definition is well recognized.

Terrorism has never been exclusively categorized as mass casualty attacks (and that's a relatively recent phenomenon, compared to the 70s and 80s with hijackings).

[1] https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority...

[krasin]

> I'm sorry, cutting undersea cables is not terrorism.

Yep. This is vandalism, not terrorism.

[cuckatoo]

Anything can be terrorism if it is politically beneficial. This is 2024, after all.

[bastawhiz]

Israel is on the Mediterranean, not the red sea. Those packets would have to take an extremely circuitous route to have been cut off from the west

[cbg0]

Blowing up gas pipelines was never presented as "good" in the media.

[jemmyw]

Yes, but I don't recall many people claiming blowing up the gas pipelines was good, whoever it was that did it. Even if you wanted that pipeline gone, releasing all that methane wasn't a good thing to do.