RealFeedApp Google and Meta face threats from undersea cable destruction
A new report warns that Chinese research and commercial vessels are actively cutting undersea cables, creating significant risks for US companies like Google and Meta.
- Field
- computer security
- What they did
- Researchers assessed the risks of sabotage to undersea cables that form the internet backbone and found that US companies face threats from Chinese research vessels.
- Why it matters
- This is important for Big Tech because Chinese ships spend an extraordinary amount of time surveying cables, and there have been investigations of Chinese commercial ships cutting cables in European and Asian waters.
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