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submitted 1 month ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

Two undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, have been severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors.

The episode on Monday recalled other incidents in the same waterway that authorities have probed as potentially malicious, including damage to a gas pipeline and undersea cables last year and the 2022 explosions of the Nord Sea gas pipelines.

The 1,200-kilometre (745-mile) cable connecting Helsinki to the German port of Rostock stopped working around 0200 GMT on Monday, Finnish state-controlled cybersecurity and telecoms company Cinia said.

A 218-km (135-mile) internet link between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island went out of service at about 0800 GMT on Sunday, according to Lithuania’s Telia Lietuva, part of Sweden’s Telia Company group.

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

This is where the real meltdown begins. Just wait until they do this in multiple places around the world and create mayhem.

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 month ago

Trump will allow it because he will get a cut from the deals he will make with his first lady for starlink and they will claim some stability bs because it's wireless yadda yadda.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

Don't worry, we have offline porn backups just in case. (In all seriousness, I hope the people and ship are caught and arrested.)

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 20 points 1 month ago

Man those EVE Online corporate sabotage shenanigans are getting SERIOUS.

...In all seriousness though, this is rather concerning that this is happening and nobody's really sure who's doing it.

[-] eggymachus@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

It’s Russia, I don’t think anybody isn’t sure of that?

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

I was going by the vagueness presented in the article but that's an entirely fair assessment, yeah!

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

and nobody's really sure who's doing it.

We are.

  • Finland.
[-] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Surprised to see Finland taking credit for this sabotage.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Lol whops, bad phrasing on my bad, I can dee that.

I meant "we are sure of who's doing it", obviously, but yes, it could be read like that.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These things are extremely durable to my understanding, to resist being regularly gnawed on by sharks;

SEVERED!?!

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Frickin' laysur beemz on ther hedz!

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

You say this like there is any other kind of shark.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It probably was bad actors, but occasionally, ship anchors dragging along the bottom can also destroy them (eg, oil tankers, extended cargo ships, cruise ships, etc.)

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

They still have not evolved suitable defence against their other natural predator (the Russian state)

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Russians, making the world worse for everyone around them

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Dunno, trumps not in office yet. I dont think he couldve authorized it.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Also Baltic Sea isn't really known for sharks, cold as it is.

[-] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Again. Year ago a cable between Finland and Estonia was destroyed. The ship that did it left from St. Petersburg and it’s ”homebase” was in Hong Kong. Russia doing Russiathings in the Baltic Sea.

[-] gbzm@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I love that expression : "sabotage by bad actors". Is Matthew McConaughey so ashamed of their latest film they don't want Finland to see it? Has there ever been a sabotage done by good actors? Like did Gary Oldman do the Gazprom one? Do you imagine the bad actors as angry people in balaclavas and black overalls, or as mustache twirling, cat stroking bond villains?

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
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