Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: Hmmm... the C-Lion1 fibre optic cable that connects Helsinki in Finland & Rostock in ...
Hmmm... the C-Lion1 fibre optic cable that connects Helsinki in Finland & Rostock in Germany has been cut.... with suspicions falling (immediately) on Russia... The night before a similar link between Sweden & Lithuania was also cut.
So on one hand this looks like a programme of communicative disruption... but one might wonder whether its a sign of the start of something else (my old IR training leads me to pose the Q. at least).
#internet #communications #security
h/t FT
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