DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
An official at Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was believed that a boat’s anchor may have caused the problems, although this was unconfirmed, AP reported. He added that it might take up to a week to repair the fault.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html
Comment: So our infrastructure is totally safe from attack (NOT).
While we’re building concrete bunkers for our data centers, some yahoo in a fishing boat drops anchor and does billions in economic damage? What’s wrong with this picture?
