99% of all internet traffic – from this video to your Pokemon Go account to your family WhatsApp group – runs on a hidden network of undersea cables.
Why should you care?
Because modern life is increasingly dependent on those slinky subaquatic wires.
And they get attacked by sharks from time to time.
courtesy of Tyler Morgan-Wall
--- see also Submarine cables ---
Links :
- Atlantic council : Cord-cutting, Russian style: Could the Kremlin sever global internet cables?
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