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  • Re: New subsea cable project

    From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Mike Powell on Mon Oct 27 12:48:49 2025
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    The end of VPN in Eastern Europe? This massive new subsea cable project looks to bypass Russia entirely - so is this a new age for Internet
    safety

    I just picked up a book called "The Web Beneath The Waves", but Samanth Submaranian. It's all about the undersea cables we take for granted.

    Another interesting story was a long article in Wired called "Mother
    World, Mother Board", written by Neil Stephenson about the world's
    depencency on undersea cables and interviews people in the business of
    laying undersea fiber. Interesting read - I was just thinking last week
    about going to MAE-West and trying to see if I could see where the fiber
    came in.



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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to Kurt Weiske on Tue Oct 28 13:44:30 2025
    Kurt Weiske wrote to Mike Powell <=-

    The end of VPN in Eastern Europe? This massive new subsea cable project looks to bypass Russia entirely - so is this a new age for Internet
    safety

    I just picked up a book called "The Web Beneath The Waves", but Samanth Submaranian. It's all about the undersea cables we take for granted.

    I never really thought about them until Russian and Chinese ships started dragging anchors in the Baltic in apparent attempts to snare and break the cables. Something I'd have never expected but here we are.

    Mike


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