When the Chinese warships were doing live fire drills not far away recently Deb reminded me no-one needs to invade Aotearoa if they want to take us over — they could just cut our cables. Now this:
A new Chinese tool capable of cutting the most fortified undersea data cable …
Via: The new threat to the undersea cables keeping our internet going | RNZ News.
Gathadair @Miraz yeah I have been worried for a while about how much essential infrastructure is now hosted in cloud platforms in Australia.
Miraz Jordan @dubh Not just that but if the Internet went down for a prolonged time that would disrupt not only blogging 🤣 but also banking, business, big-deal messaging — the works. I know we have more than one cable, but if an aggressor was intent on harming us for some reason that wouldn't hinder them too much, I'm sure.
Gathadair @Miraz yes that is exactly the scenario I mean. Cutting the cables around island nations like NZ and Australia is just too easy, and in NZ so much government and industry stuff is in AWS South East Australia and the equivalent Azure instances. We’d be stuffed.