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Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts

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123 points hampus | 3 comments | 20 Nov 24 22:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.638s | source
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anonymousDan ◴[20 Nov 24 23:08 UTC] No.42199097[source]▶
One important question that I'm unclear on is how long it takes to fix one of these cables. If it takes months then that is quite a wide window in which an attacker could incrementally take down cables.
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PhasmaFelis ◴[20 Nov 24 23:22 UTC] No.42199191[source]▶
In this particular case, it seems like the attackers were trying for plausible deniability (making it look like an accident with an anchor). A comprehensive series of "accidents" wouldn't fit that goal.

(And if they decide they don't care about plausible deniability, they could use sub-deployed timed mines to take out every cable at once.)

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1. chgs ◴[20 Nov 24 23:30 UTC] No.42199255[source]▶
And then once they are fixed take them out again
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2. JumpCrisscross ◴[20 Nov 24 23:38 UTC] No.42199323[source]▶
> once they are fixed take them out again

In an actual war, you hit the repair equipment and personnel [1].

(As to the Geneva Conventions note, we're discussing a hypothetical war with Russia. The status quo, including rules of war, are going to be rewritten by the victors.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap_strike

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3. chgs ◴[21 Nov 24 09:33 UTC] No.42202553[source]▶
If you are planting one cutting device (small bomb etc), you could do the same thing 10 miles down the line and blast it again without having to revisit the area.