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95 TO 99% OF ALL GLOBAL INTERNET TRAFFIC FLOWS THROUGH UNDERSEA CABLES AND IRAN JUST THREATENED TO CUT THEM Read that again. Not satellites. Physical glass fiber cables sitting on the ocean floor at 200 feet depth. ZERO protection. 30% of the world’s internet passes through ONE chokepoint: the Strait of Hormuz. 20+ cables run …
This is where we’re at now. People aren’t even robbing stores anymore, they’re ripping the whole building apart to get the cash inside. Wild atm theft video out of TX early this morning. Video from @WSPDTX pic.twitter.com/0L1kRRpPW3 — Jason Allen (@JasonAllenLive) December 24, 2025
The global aviation system just showed how fragile it really is. Over one weekend, two major airport networks broke down at the same time. In Europe, a cyberattack took out automated boarding systems across multiple airports, hitting Heathrow, Brussels, and Berlin hard. In Texas, a collapse of fiber optic cables and contractor errors shut down …
NATO thinks it was accidental. The media loves nothing more than to fan speculation. — Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) November 27, 2024
BREAKING: The Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 has been chased, intercepted, and boarded by Danish Navy vessel Y311 Søløven after the Chinese vessel destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables linking Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania. The vessel sailed from Russia & the captain is Russian pic.twitter.com/gRJ3rxobBC — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 20, 2024 BREAKING: The Chinese vessel Yi …
by Michael The U.S. is accusing Russia of preparing to cut undersea cables which carry Internet traffic all over the world, and Russia is accusing western powers of preparing to do the exact same thing. In some cases, these undersea cables literally stretch from one continent to another, and so it is impossible to guard …
Vietnam’s internet connectivity has faced disruptions once again due to three out of five submarine internet cables going down around June 15, 2024. These outages have significantly affected Vietnam’s connection with the world, making some offshore websites difficult to access. The impacted cables include: Intra Asia (IA) connection to Singapore. Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) link. Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) pipeline. As a result, only two subsea cables …
At least four undersea fiber optic cables, which carry approximately 97% of all Internet traffic, were damaged last week in the Red Sea, telecommunications providers are reporting, and instability in Yemen threatens to prevent operators from fixing them immediately. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/03/04/four-fiber-optic-cables-damaged-in-red-sea-heres-what-we-know/?sh=d905a6255b17 Several undersea communications cables in the Red Sea have been cut, affecting 25% of data …
Damage to submarine cables in the Red Sea is disrupting telecommunications networks and forcing providers to reroute as much as a quarter of traffic between Asia, Europe and the Middle East, including internet traffic. Cables belonging to four major telecoms networks have been “cut” causing “significant” disruption to communications networks in the Middle East, according …
UN-recognised government and telecoms firms speak of threat to digital infrastructure, with some cables lying 100m below surface Telecom firms linked to the UN-recognised Yemen government have said they fear Houthi rebels are planning to sabotage a network of submarine cables in the Red Sea critical to the functioning of the western internet and the …
Julian Assange revealed that Global warming was seen as an opportunity for oil drilling, according to US cables for which he is now being prosecuted, including plans to “carve up” the Arctic for oil, gold and uranium extraction #COP28📷 #FreeAssangeLink: https://t.co/z5kzmoBK5F pic.twitter.com/ZqM5JlqRa2 — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 4, 2023 Julian Assange is being prosecuted for revealing …
via ADN: Residents of several North Slope and Northwest Alaska communities have been experiencing internet and cell service interruptions this week caused by a cut to the subsea fiber optic network. The cut might take up to two months to repair, and telecommunications service providers are looking for short-term solutions to bring service back online. …