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Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts

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153 points hampus | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 22:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.237s | 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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mistyvales ◴[20 Nov 24 23:42 UTC] No.42199352[source]▶
Crazy that you can splice optical cable..
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1. timbit42 ◴[21 Nov 24 17:08 UTC] No.42206353[source]▶
Why is it crazy? It's been done since there has been optical cable.