Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables: report • Hacker News Board

Re: Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables: report

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Post by joshamania » Sun, Dec 24, 2017, 3:24 PM UTC

cm2187 wrote: post #37

I believe that until recently neither Azure or AWS had a datacenter in the UK. Cutting undersea cables between the UK and the US / Europe / Ireland could have some serious consequences in the UK, at the very least on the economy, possibly on its infrastructure (payment systems, communications, etc). But aren't terrestrial cables more vulnerables than undersea cables? Cutting undersea cables require sophisticated tech…

Cutting undersea cables can be done with as little as a fishing boat and an anchor.

Re: Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables: report

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Post by WillyOnWheels » Sun, Dec 24, 2017, 5:51 PM UTC

yeukhon wrote: post #27

john_moscow wrote: post #24

Given that it's 2017 and a huge fraction of the traffic is HTTPS anyway, is there any practical benefit to this?

This is quite interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12193353 and not too long ago a big portion of Internet were rerouted to Russia (BGP). One must wonder what they are up to. Perhaps the Russian is mapping the world’s Internet, particularly on identifying critical infrastructure which without them would paralyze the world. My theory is based on North Korea. Imagine NK owns its own cable (I believe they j…

> and not too long ago a big portion of Internet were rerouted to Russia (BGP)

This happens every few months, and not always by Russian ISPs. This would never happen if all upstream providers had proper filters on accepting BGP requests.

It really means the current system of using BGP is not resilient, and never has been.

Look up bgp hijack nanog

Re: Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables: report

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 24, 2017, 10:05 PM UTC

WillyOnWheels wrote: post #62

yeukhon wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is quite interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12193353 and not too long ago a big portion of Internet were rerouted to Russia (BGP). One must wonder what they are up to. Perhaps the Russian is mapping the world’s Internet, particularly on identifying critical infrastructure which without them would paralyze the world. My theory is based on North Korea. Imagine NK owns its own cable (I believe they j…

> and not too long ago a big portion of Internet were rerouted to Russia (BGP) This happens every few months, and not always by Russian ISPs. This would never happen if all upstream providers had proper filters on accepting BGP requests. It really means the current system of using BGP is not resilient, and never has been. Look up bgp hijack nanog

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Re: Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables: report

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Post by CurtMonash » Mon, Dec 25, 2017, 3:04 AM UTC

CurtMonash wrote: post #56

cfghcrtyd wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In some ways, the story of someone getting ripped off like that leaves the victim with a better story for themselves than simply being a guy who has four super bowl rings even though he doesn't actually play football. Which is not to applaud theft, but rather to highlight the unsympathetic qualities of the victim.

Robert Kraft was in the headlines (e.g. atop CNN.com) for two days when that happened. How may CEOs get that sort of public attention and have it be FAVORABLE? It was an enormous PR win for him. And then the ass had to go support his buddy Donald Trump ... :(

Why would anybody downvote me on THIS site for opposing Trump? Do you like the bitter Steve Bannon attacks on the tech industry? Do you think immigration is a bad idea? Do you find him to be an honest, decent, likeable man? Do you agree with his moves to get science out of scientific policy-making? Do you favor his attitude of "Truth is whatever I tweet it is?"

I don't get it.