{"id":74966,"date":"2015-04-02T23:03:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T03:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T14:31:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T18:31:06","slug":"sharks-attacking-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/sharks-attacking-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sharks are Taking a Bite Out of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sharks<\/a>Politicians in Washington D.C. think that the Internet is made of tubes<\/strong><\/a>. Most other people think the modern Internet is made of cell phones and wireless connections. They have no idea of how the Intertubes works. Readers of Bach Seat<\/em><\/a> know that undersea cables cross the globe<\/strong> connecting the continents. Despite a century of development cables are still subject to the same threats the first transatlantic cables<\/a> faced in 1900.<\/p>\n

T\"\"<\/a>he Internet remains a relatively fragile thing according to Catchpoint<\/a>. They report<\/a> that the Internet can be brought down by as a little as an old woman with a hacksaw<\/a>. Squirrels and bears<\/strong> have been known to wreak havoc <\/a>with fiber optic cables<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

The article says that Internet users in Vietnam<\/a> have recently been suffering through slow and intermittent connections for months now without any explanation of the cause. The cause was not a government tapping the underwater fiber<\/a>, it was just a dangerous – SHARKS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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