[trhway]

We can look at October 7th in Israel how long, with all the communications and infrastructure working, it took to organize defense in a very technologically developed country which basically had been living in the state of war readiness. Now add broken significant communications, chaos of non-working banks/ATMs, power shut-offs, clogged highways, etc. (don't get me wrong - i'm not saying that Russia can do all that, i'm saying that Russia is actively working on those capabilities, and whether they achieve it to the needed extent is the key to how the events would go in the near future)

[cryptoegorophy]

I still don’t get how Oct 7 was not an inside job. With mossad crabs everywhere how do you miss such a major plot to attack with so many actors involved?

[avh02]

You're right, but I think there were a lot of other factors involved there unrelated to basic infrastructure. Not to get too in to politics but i think there was a lot of underestimation, dismissal of warning signals (focus was elsewhere, as you can see with how precise intelligence seems to be in Lebanon), and just bad timing for them. I don't think anyone living in Russia's shadow, seeing what is actively happening, will be that unprepared.

[stoperaticless]

These broke cables have not affected daily lives (possibly ISPs had extra work though)

[nopakos]

Hey! I woke up at 06:00 to check what was wrong with a service. It turned out, a server in Germany could not reach a server in Finland in the 20" timeout I had set.

[toast0]

You set your timeout in inches? I thought you were all metric over tehre, except for socket drivers which are universally imperial :P

[nopakos]

Yes, although miles would be more appropriate! https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

[pvaldes]

Just for the record

20": English notation for twenty seconds

[stoperaticless]

Analysis regarding latencies and packet loss due to cut cables:

https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/does-the-internet-rou...

[aerzen]

How did you reach the conclusion it was not an inside job? Or an intentional israeli delay so the response was "justified"?

I'm not being snarky, but from what I gather, Isreal could have prevented that.

[stoperaticless]

What?