EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When the land of undersea Internet transit cables begin in the 90s, it must’ve occurred to somebody that these were vulnerabilities that would only become more vulnerabilities of our time as we begin to rely more and more on them.
Frankly, I am rather surprised it took so long for anyone to either use them as a weapon or for anyone to actively begin guarding them. But, clearly, that is a yell at me we now live in.
treadful@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It’s kind of a MAD thing. If you open up this line of attack, everyone suffers because everyone depends on this shit now.
The latest seemingly intentional cuts seems almost pointless though, since there’s so many redundancies that cutting a single cable isn’t going to cause that much of an issue. Kind of seems like a bigger game I’m not aware of.
Fermion@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Cutting a single cable feels like a means of probing the response. Where does the traffic get rerouted through? How long does it take to repair a cable? Which handful of crews even have that capability. Could selective sabotage be used to force traffic through a compromized node?
I definitely think there’s a bigger game at play and Russia and China are both trying to characterize communications infrastructure.