The protection of undersea internet cables is a matter of national security.
They could also lay down more cables for redundancy. Expensive but it would prove much more safe. It would be best if they were owned by two separate companies using totally different stuff.
The good new right now is that China would lose more than the US would if a cable got cut.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Good. It shouldn’t be so simple to completely isolate and cripple a country.