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2018-01-07 International-UN-NGOs

Undersea cables the Achilles' heel in lead-up to new cold war

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-01-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 There bare plenty of cables and satellites too, it would be extremely difficult to cut enough to serious do significant damage.

Posted by bernardz 2018-01-07 01:56|| 2018-01-07 01:56|| Front Page Top

System redundancy is unnecessary, our defenses are impregnable.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-07 02:09|| 2018-01-07 02:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait, did they just say all the computer chips are crap awaiting exploitation? Why worry about the cables?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-01-07 09:29|| 2018-01-07 09:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I used to load these cables onto boats when I was going to college at UNH. There's a division of Tyco Industries in Newington, NH (Simplex) where they make the cables, and $8 / hr was pretty good cake for a college kid in the '80's.

Posted by Raj 2018-01-07 10:44|| 2018-01-07 10:44|| Front Page Top

#5 and $8 / hr was pretty good cake for a college kid in the '80's.

When the minimum wage was a quarter of that? I’ll say.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-01-07 11:38|| 2018-01-07 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 My back is still sore from unloading 80 lb bags of crushed limestone from a semi trailer in 1968, for $1.60 an hour.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-01-07 16:03|| 2018-01-07 16:03|| Front Page Top

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