Russian Cable Attacks 'threaten to Cut Off World's Internet'

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Military chiefs at Nato have been warned of global internet blackouts following a string of suspected Russian attacks on subsea cables.

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Chinese researchers have unveiled a new deep-sea tool capable of cutting through the world's most secure subsea cables - which carry most global Internet traffic . A public affairs professor explains why it has many in the West feeling a little jittery: buff.ly/Sy1wUtF #maritimelaw

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... In an open letter, they wrote: "The repercussions of damage to subsea cables extend far beyond Europe, potentially affecting global internet and power infrastructure, international communications, financial transactions and critical services worldwide."

It comes after a spike in incidents relating to fibre optic cables on seabeds that carry huge volumes of data, voice and internet traffic between countries.

More than 500 cables carry around 95pc of all international data, while their remote location makes them difficult and costly to monitor.

At least 11 subsea cables have been damaged in the Baltic Sea since October 2023 and similar outages have been reported in the North Sea.

The incidents have fuelled fears of sabotage by hostile actors, with more than 50 Russian ships observed in areas of high cable density in the Baltic Sea. The UK is monitoring the Russian spy ship Yantar amid concerns that it is mapping critical underwater infrastructure. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-12 03:14 PM

www.telegraph.co.uk
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" The Western underbelly' leaving Britain exposed to enemy states
Subsea cables carrying billions of messages and financial transactions are being targeted in a war beneath the waves"

-The Telegraph article, lifted and published by Yahoo, becomes headlined:

The Telegraph (they even copied the Telegraph header )
"Russian cable attacks threaten to cut off world's internet'"

As usual, OP skips over the original article and selects one farther down the propaganda chain for presentation to the other TDS moroni, who will now wander aimlessly this week barking the same insubstantial headline edit as fact.

Oh wait, there is a Telegraph article that was lifted complete, without a source link, by Yahoo:

www.telegraph.co.uk

I see they attributed the "sabotage" theory mostly to this vaguely-sourced "open letter":
Telecoms companies including Vodafone, O2 owner Telefonica and Orange have written to UK, EU and Nato officials warning that a rise in sabotage incidents was putting critical services at risk.
In an open letter,

- an open letter
May we see it?