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Also - totally unrealistic - but what if the ice freezed again, making the cables impermeable to spying and ushering in some kind of golden era of diplomacy and
by asimpletune 5y ago
Also - totally unrealistic - but what if the ice freezed again, making the cables impermeable to spying and ushering in some kind of golden era of diplomacy and trust. I remember reading that in times when technology favored defense there were widespread moments of peace throughout Europe, like in the Middle Ages, so this could be something like that.
- throw0101a 5y ago> but what if the ice freezed again, making the cables impermeable to spying and ushering in some kind of golden era of diplomacy and trust. It would make no difference: subsea cables are accessed via submarine, which don't care about ice (or no ice). * https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the-creepy-long-standing-practice-of-undersea-cable-tapping/277855/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/th... * https://www.lawfareblog.com/evaluating-russian-threat-undersea-cables https://www.lawfareblog.com/evaluating-russian-threat-unders... * https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/we-now-have-details-uss-jimmy-carter-spy-submarines-secret-mission-129272 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/we-now-have-details-u... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter
- nradov 5y agoSpying by tapping into unencrypted traffic on undersea cables was done briefly during the Cold War. Now governments encrypt all their traffic so you won't get anything useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells?wprov=sfla...
- wyck 5y agoThere still a lot of tapping going on, there are modern subs build specifically for this.