It seems I was right about the undersea cables in the Mediterranean. The news wires this morning are awash with stories of breaks in cables affecting coutries across the Middle East and India amongst others. One such sample story can be found here at Bloggernews.net. I didn't pick this one particularly for its rumour and conjecture content, but more because it has a great jpg showing where the worlds' undersea cables run - I've always loved maps - I should have been a cartographer. Given the extent of the problems at the moment, it may be considered something of a surprise that I can post this at all, but I guess it does go to show the extent of the redundancy built into the [internet] system, and potentially how difficult it would be to shut it down as some would have us believe a variety of Government agencies would like to do.