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Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts

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123 points hampus | 4 comments | 20 Nov 24 22:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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booi ◴[20 Nov 24 23:33 UTC] No.42199277[source]▶
Generally it can be fixed in days. They raise it from the sea floor and splice in a new cable section.
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1. scheme271 ◴[21 Nov 24 02:52 UTC] No.42200621[source]▶
True but ships and crews with the equipment to do the repairs are limited. It's possible to overwhelm the repair capacities. Also, it takes time to physically travel between cuts so while cuts in the Baltic might take a week or two to fix, a cut in the Atlantic and one in the Baltic may take a week or two just for travel.
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2. shmerl ◴[21 Nov 24 03:35 UTC] No.42200853[source]▶
If someone will try to overwhelm the repair capacities for integral communications, they'll be dealt with like pirates - simply sunk and be done with.
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3. LtWorf ◴[21 Nov 24 05:05 UTC] No.42201308[source]▶
As if they know which ship did this…
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4. shmerl ◴[21 Nov 24 05:25 UTC] No.42201401{3}[source]▶
They already know. The captain will probably end up in prison for a long time, and company which owns the ship will pay for the deliberate damage. Would be good too if they can crack who from the crew works for Russian saboteurs besides the captain. Unlikely it's just one person.