Posted on 10/26/2015 8:11:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The presence of Russian submarines and spy ships near undersea cables carrying most global Internet communications has U.S. officials concerned that Russia could be planning to sever the lines in periods of conflict, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
The Times said there was no evidence of cable cutting but that the concerns reflected increased wariness among U.S. and allied officials over growing Russian military activity around the world.
The newspaper quoted naval commanders and intelligence officials as saying they were monitoring significantly greater Russian activity along the cables' known routes from the North Sea to Northeast Asia and waters closer to the United States.
“It would be a concern to hear any country was tampering with communication cables; however, due to the classified nature of submarine operations, we do not discuss specifics,”
U.S. Navy spokesman Commander William Marks told the Times.
Last month, the United States closely monitored the Russian spy ship Yantar, which equipped with two self-propelled deep-sea submersible craft, cruised off the U.S. East Coast toward Cuba, where one cable lands near the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, according to the Times.
Naval officials said the ship and the submersible craft were capable of cutting cables miles (km) deep beneath the sea, the Times said.
While cables are frequently cut by ship anchors or natural disasters and then quickly repaired, Pentagon officials are concerned that the Russians seem to be looking for vulnerabilities at much greater depths where cable breaks are harder to locate and repair, the paper said.
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LOLOL
We began offensive operations against Spain in 1898 by cutting cables.
The cloud was only a marketing gimmick to those who don’t understand technology. It is really just a building full of Dell or HP servers connected to a high speed internet line. You would be surprised how many people didn’t understand this.
1858, Ireland to Newfoundland.
But no real commercial voice links until 1956... from wiki -
When the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 by businessman Cyrus West Field, it operated for only three weeks; subsequent attempts in 1865 and 1866 were more successful. Although a telephone cable was discussed starting in the 1920s, to be practical it needed a number of technological advances which did not arrive until the 1940s. Starting in 1927, transatlantic telephone service was radio-based.
TAT-1 (Transatlantic No. 1) was the first transatlantic telephone cable system. It was laid between Gallanach Bay, near Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland between 1955 and 1956 by the cable ship Monarch. It was inaugurated on September 25, 1956, initially carrying 36 telephone channels.
Yes it the opposite.. fiber optic cable is the modern way..satellite or microwave is old 60's tech and out of date...on a satellite line you have many issues.. just the delay because of the uplink downlink is not acceptable..then interference in free space radio transmission
all modern long data transmission is on a hard line fiber optic cable...and going in the water has many advantage the going across land.....
what you see many time is if you want to lay a fiber optic cable and your on the coastline.. they will just daisy chain along it in the water rather the go across land
I did 7 years of data backbone management for a global data provider.. we had fiber paths circling the world...it was my job to keep the data flowing on all these data paths...knew most all then undersea cables by name like you would know the local roads where you live
Sounds like 'process time' is the problem. Anyway around that?
Based on the book, "Blind Man's Bluff," I know that this is how we first intercepted Soviet cables with our submarines. Communications were probably less encrypted and less complex in general 3 or 4 decades ago. That in mind, I suspect that these cables are built with more shielding to prevent any sort of induction leak.
Boy would that be stupid. Americans will hate Russia.
I’m still here.....
that’s what counts to me
...and shut down the lucrative Russian hacker enterprises? I don’t think so.
Serious questions. Thank you for any response. Obviously, I'm not a communications engineer, but I did play one on the Internet :)
The earth circumference is around 24,000 miles so max distance to and two points on earth is about 1/2 that....a geosyn orbit for a satellite must be a about the same 24000 miles so up down distance is min ×2...
So for data travel time land line = or less of .5 of 24000 miles ..vs geosyn satellite = or more of x2 of 24000.....
The checks’s in the mail!”
So you’re the culprit!
speed of light..light(radio waves) takes time to travel a distances..so time for that radio wave to travel up and travel back down....
Really? I'm no computer scientist nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn, but even I know there is no great magical "Cloud" in the sky. People really don't know the term means data storage on dedicated servers? I do and that's why I won't trust them with my data, much less my passwords.
I do simple drag&drop backups on thumb drives. A handy technology that came along to replace external hard drives for the average computer user. I've got all my data, programs.exe, photos, music, emails, bookmarks backed up on one 16GB ScanDisk, plus have other thumb drives for custom arrangements. Love that I was able to get rid of my Maxim external drive. And yes, I have a duplicate of the above 16GB backup with overflow. Gotta run? Two thumb drives will back me up when I get a new computer.
Yeah, what ever happened to my VHS copies of "Happy Days" I ordered? Thanks for letting me know where to submit my claim. Repeat after me: "I'm Proud Without a Cloud!"
Your parting gifts are on the way...
“I’m Proud Without a Cloud!”
And I am - in every way possible. Amazes me how many people that view themselves as intelligent beyond all imagination use the internet for absolutely everything yet have no comprehension of what actually happens to their information and who does what with it. Guess having boundaries and wanting to keep private matters private is another old fashioned value which is disappearing.
This was the plot of an episode of State of Affairs last year. Show was cancelled.
Message sent loud and clear.
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