I don’t understand the motivation in these kinds of attacks. Are they so pissed they just try to hurt everybody on the planet, which would make this the purest form of terrorism? Or are they doing research on the ownership structure of the ISPs responsible for the maintenance?
I don’t understand the motivation in these kinds of attacks.
It’s easy: Houthi terrorists are backed by Iranian terrorists and Muscovy terrorists, and all they want is more chaos in the world. That’s what terrorists do.
The motivation is to disrupt the global economy by targeting the international communications infrastructure. They attacked communications during their civil war, so it’s SOP.
It’s SOP for any hot or cold war I suppose.
You’ll mostly find internet disruptions within countries themselves. For instance, Pakistan has shut down most of their internet for some time now due to their election results. The internet is used as an organization tool for protests. This resulted in the Arab Spring, among other world events.
If it was near the shore - they might’ve stole the section of wire. Copper is really expensive.
They generally use fiber for cables like this due to the bandwidth requirements.
There’s a sizable amount of copper too, to power the repeaters
I can’t believe they just leave a massive interwebs cable just lying on the fucking beach like that. No wonder it got attacked.
(Winky winky btw)
Most infrastructure in the world is not defended against any attacks. Doing so would cost far too much money. We’re talking about thousands of miles of cable.
The best defense is trying to not piss off people by committing Genocide.
There’s a lot of Saudi oil refineries right next to Yemen. If bombardments on Yemen get out of hand they still have the option to wreck the world economy.
That is just an image (probably during construction) and the damage seems to be somewhere far out in the ocean anyway.
Wai-wai-wait! Just an IMAGE?!?!?
You mean….that’s not ACTUALLY a cable and tiny man? I can’t reach into my phone and touch the tiny man?!?!
Back in the 1970’s (?) the US Navy sent submarines into Soviet Union coastal areas to tap undersea cables. Locating them even at a depth isn’t terribly difficult…
I’m surprised they don’t lay down dozens of decoys if it’s all so important.
If they took the time, energy, and funds to do that it would just make more sense to make redundant lines.
Oh man but israel was going to defend everything. Strategic position in the Middle East they said.
IDF’s army of Indian “I stand with israel” trolls in shambles.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Internet service across swaths of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East has been disrupted following damages to undersea cables of major providers to the areas.
A statement from Hong Kong telecom HGC Global Communications says as much as 25% of the traffic in the areas has been impacted.
The disruption of the cables did not disconnect any country from the internet, but the Wall Street Journal reports service in India, Pakistan, and parts of East Africa was noticeably degraded.
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has experts wondering about the timing and severity of this outage, though.
Houthi control of the region and the ongoing strife in Yemen makes repairing the damaged cables more complicated.
One of the four companies affected said it expects to start that process early in the second quarter, though permit issues, weather, and the civil war in that country could impact that.
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Rare my arse, there’s no week without a new seacable cut .
Someone is really asking to be invaded.
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
The invasions will continue until internet improves!
TRAINING MANUAL TIPS.
If an ennemy ever attemps to engage in diplomacy, SHOOT THEM. We musn’t believe their lies.
