Δευτέρα 26 Οκτωβρίου 2015

New York Times: In the shadow of the Kremlin underwater fiber optic Internet

New York Times: In the shadow of the Kremlin underwater fiber optic Internet
Russian submarines and spy ship found near underwater cables that carry nearly all global Internet communications, and according to US intelligence and security services "reasonably raised concerns that the Russians who intensify their military presence to Syria would not left outside their plans cyberspace. "

"The Cold War alert ', marked by warning Americans experts that are vulnerable cables fiber optic if cut by sabotage, it froze global electronic communications in inter-governmental, commercial and any other level in the West," it said on the front page of the New York Times.

It is significant, according to the US report that Russian submarine patrols have increased almost by almost 50 percent last year in the Pacific Ocean, and the North Sea and the coast of Norway, to the North East Asia.

"The level of activity is comparable to what we saw in the Cold War", affirm and European officials according to which "already Norway has requested assistance from NATO to halt Russian spy."

Just last month, the Russian oceanographic vessel Yantar, equipped with two self-propelled deep-sea underwater vessels found off the east coast of the United States en route to Cuba - where key Fiber optic zone, close to the US Naval Base in Guantanamo.

As noted in the same report, the American Admiral James Stavridis, former supreme commander of NATO and now dean of the Fletcher School, in a message from his mail warned that "tools of the Cold War were modernized and withdrawn with unpredictable consequences."

"The risk is that each country could damage the system, hidden, without even having naval fighting force", explains the expert of the Harvard-MIT, Michael Sechrist, noting that "cables are cut all the time, from anchors ships and natural disasters, but these injuries occur close to shore and repaired within days, while the Russians seem to be looking for vulnerabilities in much greater depths, where they could cause irreparable damage. "

According to Admiral Mark Ferguson, commander of US naval forces in Europe, "what is at stake is $ 10 trillion a day from global business, and 95% of daily communication in cyberspace."

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