ya don't as far as i know... i guess if you could open the casing AND if you knew which line was which, you might be able to scrap off a little cladding and pickup a little light bleeding out but even that, is still crazy talk
Posted on 10/25/2015 10:27:30 AM PDT by McGruff
Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns among some American military and intelligence officials that the Russians might be planning to attack those lines in times of conflict.
The issue goes beyond old Cold War worries that the Russians would tap into the cables — a task American intelligence agencies also mastered decades ago. The alarm today is deeper: In times of tension or conflict, the ultimate Russian hack on the United States could involve severing the fiber-optic cables at some of their hardest-to-access locations to halt the instant communications on which the West’s governments, economies and citizens have grown dependent.
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3,000+ miles of cable, or only the shallower water portions?
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Tapping into a fiber optic cable is very difficult on the sea bottom. Detection of tampering is possible.
Cutting a fiber optic cable is very easy - just ask any number of backhoe operators!
Business as usual in the coming Soviet Socialist Republic of the United States: “if you want your internet, you can keep your internet.”
“Check out the history of a top-secret U.S. military operation called “Operation Ivy Bells.”
Was that the operation the the book ‘Blind Man’s Bluff’ was based on?
So why isn’t our military protecting these hardest to access spots?
I was gonna say...how do you tap a fiber optic line without literally breaking into the line....and of course instantly alerting the service providers that the line has been breached...
Kennedy had in fact been briefed about our defense capabilities and just about everything else as the democrat nominee for president BEFORE the debates. He knew the US was well defended; he lied when he said we weren’t, criticizing the Eisenhower/Nixon administration. Vice President Nixon could not rebut this in the debates. because he would be betraying our national secrets.
If Kennedy really won those debates and I do not think he did, it was because he deliberately and knowingly lied. Everyone who listened to the debates via radio rather than watched on TV thought Nixon won handily. Unfortunately, Nixon’s television make-up was not very good and that is the reason some people thought he lost.
My parents told me this, I was just a grammar school kid at the time, uncaring and unknowing — which is exactly as it should be for children.
Nonetheless, with great relish, I chanted on the playground with the other republican children, “Nixon is in the White House talking on the phone, Kennedy’s in the dog house, chewing on a bone” to which the democrat children responded in the reverse, each side attempting to drown the other, the bell rang, when all was forgotten. It sickens me how children are drawn into our disgusting and immoral politics these days.
And that is when "style over substance" took over in politics.
A couple years ago an earthquake south of Taiwan cut an underseas cable, and our internet here in the Philippines was out for six weeks...it took me 3 weeks to find out why because I did not read about it in the news or see it on CNN...business internet stayed on by rerouting but they just shut down civilians.
However it did get a lot of coverage in India, whose internet had to be rerouted to the west...and became very slow.
there also were suspicious cuts near Egypt and near the Persian gulf around that time.
some businesses here have satellite internet, and when I lived in rural Oklahoma I had satellite internet. And the military uses satellite intenet too.
Ha!!! God that’s funny. Thanks for the laugh.
Btw, on topic—I’m sure multiple enemy countries have cable cutting bombs already planted at strategic points. Probably, but not certainly, with super long wave communication detonation controllers. They would be stupid not to.
We really, really need Rods From God deployed like yesterday. Send a couple through the roofs of select palaces and such. Without warning. Without notice. Without claiming credit.
Imho
ya don't as far as i know... i guess if you could open the casing AND if you knew which line was which, you might be able to scrap off a little cladding and pickup a little light bleeding out but even that, is still crazy talk
It’s no accident that this story is being floated just before Infinera’s earnings report that comes out Tuesday. INFN is the premier PIC manufacturer for the internet fiber backbone.
they use Corning fiber, right?
Mao pressed for the USSR to hit the US with nukes as soon as possible, since even with 1.4 billion people dead, half the population of China, it would be the Final Victory of Marxism.
Khrushchev started rethinking his support for China. He had literally handed Mao the plans and personnel to build a Chinese atomic bomb, and short range R-2 missiles for the Chinese to copy, even going so far as to have Russian experts suggest the locations for Lop Nor, the Chinese atomic test site, and the missile test area at Shijiedu.
The Russians started reducing their support for China, soon after. Mao was just too crazy.
What another line needs to be added, or some maintenance becomes necessary to the original cable?
What if there’s an accidental detonation?
Would you even know the Russians were there if the military weren’t doing their job? How did this article get reported...?
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