[HN Gopher] French fiber optic cables cut in latest Olympics sab...
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       French fiber optic cables cut in latest Olympics sabotage
        
       Author : AlphaWeaver
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-07-30 17:13 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.axios.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.axios.com)
        
       | gnabgib wrote:
       | (31+20 points, yesterday)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41098963
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41101755
        
       | Stevvo wrote:
       | Many will be quick to place the blame on Russia or Iran, but in
       | the absence of evidence try not to fall for propaganda. Wait for
       | the fog-of-war to clear; eventually evidence will come out.
        
         | blackeyeblitzar wrote:
         | Evidence from intelligence agencies of unlikely to come out
         | into the public's view. They doesn't mean it is automatically
         | propaganda. Given Iran has been funding proxy groups and
         | asymmetric warfare for years, it is far more likely it is
         | actually Iran. Their hands are on attacks in Israel, off Yemen,
         | pro Gaza riots on American university campuses, and probably
         | this as well.
        
         | qsdf38100 wrote:
         | Yes, we can't allow ourselves to risk hurting the feelings of
         | our precious friends that vows to nuke London and invade
         | Berlin.
        
           | jazzyjackson wrote:
           | Better to avoid starting a war with your sworn enemies before
           | you have to. Hurt feelings is not the worst possible outcome
           | here. I'll note WWI was started not by a foreign enemy or
           | occupying force, but by local radicals (granted, 'locals'
           | only by annexation, I suppose the Austro-Hungarians were the
           | occupying force in this case)
        
         | ManuelKiessling wrote:
         | From what I understood from following the general news
         | reporting on this, France assumes that this was done by left-
         | wing radicals.
        
         | bsder wrote:
         | While I have no problem blaming Russia or Iran, fiber optic
         | cuts are _notorious_.
         | 
         | There's an old joke about a sysadmin who used to hike and why
         | he kept optic fibre in his backpack: "If I ever get lost, I'll
         | just bury that cable in the ground. In an hour a backhoe will
         | come along to dig it up."
        
           | brianwawok wrote:
           | This isn't 1 cable got cut, it's multiple cables 100s of
           | miles apart during the same night.
        
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