Kremlin’s New Subs Set Sights on Internet’s Undersea Backbone
"Kremlin’s New Subs Set Sights on Internet’s Undersea Backbone" — Levi Maxey — The Cipher Brief — January 07, 2018
The U.S. and its NATO allies have warned that an uptick in Russian submarine activity near undersea fiber optic cables means Moscow may be plotting to disrupt or intercept sensitive or other critical internet communications in the event of a confrontation with the West.
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Undersea cables are a valuable commodity in the 21st century global communication environment. The undersea consortium is owned by various international companies such as ATT, and these companies provide high-speed broadband connectivity and capacity for large geographic areas that are important entities of trade and communications around the globe. If undersea cables were cut or disrupted outside of the U.S.
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- Underseas cables handle trillions of dollars of transactions a day and help sustain global banking industry
- U.S. banking and military command systems rely on underseas cables
- Recent underseas cable attacks show the impact of their disruption
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