Suspicious Subsea Cable Breaks Prompt Calls for Investigation in Australia
A new awareness of the vulnerability of subsea infrastructure is leading to enhanced scrutiny with every break, particularly when there might be a ship involved. Over the weekend, a UAE-managed product tanker opted to navigate in an unusual racetrack pattern over a charted subsea cable zone off Perth, Australia; at about the same time, a fiber optic cable operator reported an outage in two cables in the same area - and raised the possibility of a security incident.d The cables...
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