by pimeys on 12/26/24, 1:51 PM
A good timing for this article, because today there was again somebody breaking the cables between Finland and Estonia.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20133531
by fifilura on 12/25/24, 6:14 PM
by mrbluecoat on 12/25/24, 6:53 PM
Good thing they have a giant neon green spindle of fiber optic cable right next to the discreet cabin to help it blend in..
by ksec on 12/26/24, 9:15 AM
“security through obscurity” and then go on a publish it in a news paper?
Can someone provide some context here because I dont understand what is going on here.
by AtlasBarfed on 12/27/24, 5:53 AM
The russians are pretty much totally dependent on Scandinavia not shutting down / blockading their ocean access like Turkey has somewhat effectively done in the Black Sea.
Russia is being really stupid in my opinion. They are antagonizing a far superior military force. The nuclear risk is obvious, but it seems that Europe will have to escalate the conventional conflict in Ukraine with more direct action.
Europe has to do some "growing up" militarily. At least it appears that Finland and Poland have their act together
by yayitswei on 12/26/24, 4:09 PM
Letting the Guardian publish on article about the cabin is the opposite of security through obscurity.
by askonomm on 12/25/24, 7:44 PM
Probably a stupid question, but why don't we encase the (undersea) cable in some metal container or something so that it would not be so easy to break? Is it due to economics? Is the constant fixing in the end cheaper than making it hard to break, or perhaps it needs maintenance anyway often enough to make it a hassle?
by sema4hacker on 12/26/24, 8:06 PM
I looked at submarinecablemap.com and there are 4 cables going from Helsinki Findland to Tallinn Estonia. Is that just for redundancy? I would think it's expensive to add more cables between two points when so many other locations are a dead end.
by pvaldes on 12/25/24, 10:54 PM
I wonder if sea cables could be designed with some mechanism that could stand being dragged and even crossed somewhere but returning later to its position automatically with a click. Something like a giant karabiner.
by bookofjoe on 12/25/24, 10:05 PM
by kakoni on 12/26/24, 11:36 AM
So perhaps for Finland its not the wisest strategical move to push critical IT services into Azure?
by derelicta on 12/27/24, 10:51 AM
If Westerners don't like getting invaded, then they should stop invading or destabilising countries themselves. Might do the trick.
by tester756 on 12/25/24, 6:14 PM
Why write about it then?
Even if you assume that enemies' intelligence already knows about it, then doesnt it just show that it doesn't work?
Or maybe it is just fake cabin?
by vintermann on 12/26/24, 9:46 AM
> With governments in northern Europe on high alert over hybrid Russian activity, the Guardian was given exclusive access to the Stockholm datacentre site.
Yeah, ever thought about why?
by leobg on 12/25/24, 6:59 PM
> [T]he Guardian was given exclusive access to the Stockholm datacentre site. […] Daniel Aldstam, the chief security officer at GlobalConnect, which transports 50% of the internet capacity of the Nordics and runs the centre, described the approach to its location and ordinary outward appearance as “security through obscurity”.
How do you do that facepalm emoji on HN?
by wasmitnetzen on 12/26/24, 12:21 AM
by bikamonki on 12/26/24, 3:13 AM
1bn concurrent streams is a lot. Can satellites handle the same or more?
by ashoeafoot on 12/26/24, 7:58 AM
There is no hybrid war. just war and a useless generation of politicians unable to deal with a return of the ugly old world of colonial powers, starved up ans carved up nations all scrambling to get nukes.
The dictators all told us to our face what they would do in their propaganda . Nothing overt, hidden or hybrid . We need the hawks back that won the cold war and we need those doves caged in their own delusions gone.