I Don’t Think This Is The “Reset Button”…

…our Geniuses in DC were thinking of

WASHINGTON — 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.

…The role of the cables is more important than ever before. They carry global business worth more than $10 trillion a day, including from financial institutions that settle transactions on them every second. Any significant disruption would cut the flow of capital. The cables also carry more than 95 percent of daily communications.

So important are undersea cables that the Department of Homeland Security lists their landing areas — mostly around New York, Miami and Los Angeles — at the top of its list of “critical infrastructure.”

Really, what could go wrong?

2 Responses to “I Don’t Think This Is The “Reset Button”…”

1. JeffS says:

   October 26, 2015 at 11:09 am

   Y’all might want to invest some time and money, and get your amateur radio liscense. Then we can chat by HF radio.

2. aelfheld says:

   October 26, 2015 at 5:14 pm

   I never want to hear another word about Aethelred being Unready.