[HN Gopher] New Royal Navy ship to protect 'critical' undersea c...
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       New Royal Navy ship to protect 'critical' undersea cables
        
       Author : RiderOfGiraffes
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2021-03-21 10:03 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.co.uk)
        
       | cafard wrote:
       | Somebody in the Washington Post once quote a phrase from a
       | sailor's prayer: "O, Lord, my ship is so small and thy ocean so
       | large." How many thousands of miles of cable, in how many
       | hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean?
        
         | Andaith wrote:
         | That was my first thought: Just one?
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         | I suppose having a working POC is also a good idea if they need
         | to scale up more of them to protect/regularly repair the
         | cables.
        
       | jackweirdy wrote:
       | Wouldn't want anyone tapping them! (maybe I am too cynical)
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora
        
       | mrvenkman wrote:
       | I read this and was worried until I pondered if critical
       | communication was still reliant on undersea cables. A threat to
       | the economic system is obviously an important factor.
       | 
       | I am no expert but I would hope that satellites are now used for
       | defence based communication.
        
         | maccam94 wrote:
         | The bandwidth available via undersea fiber optic cables is
         | orders of magnitude higher than via satellite. I'm sure
         | governments have backup satellite links but their use would be
         | restricted to top priority traffic if something catastrophic
         | happened to the undersea cables.
        
         | [deleted]
        
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