The problem of sabotage of undersea cables was brought to the attention of UN ESCAP and the senior government officials who attended the ICT and DRR Committee meeting by LIRNEasia as far back as November 2010 (see slide 20). Now it’s headline news.
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 tension or conflict.
The issue goes beyond old worries during the Cold War that the Russians would tap into the cables — a task American intelligence agencies also mastered decades ago. The alarm today is deeper: 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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Kareem
Has there been any progress on building a land based network of fibre optic cables connecting Asian countries to the internet?
Rohan Samarajiva
http://www.unescap.org/our-work/ict-disaster-risk-reduction/asia-pacific-information-superhighway
Rohan Samarajiva
Of interest: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/we-asked-an-expert-what-would-happen-if-russia-cut-the-pipeline-to-the-internet?utm_source=vicetwitteruk
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