Yemeni Houthi rebels suspected of damaging underwater Red Sea cables responsible for 17% of global internet traffic
Yemeni Houthi rebels suspected of damaging underwater Red Sea cables responsible for 17% of global internet traffic
Yemeni Houthi rebels are believed to have damaged undersea data cables in the Red Sea that link Europe to Asia. The Iran-backed Houthis had already threatened to target the fiber optic cables, which carry an estimated 17% of the world's internet traffic, and it now appears that the group has carried out attacks.
Damn, pullin out all the stops now.
It really seems like the easiest solution to this is to stop the genocide guys.
Oh man the amount of shock you'll experience when the Houthis continue their attack regardless of any ceasefire...
oh no then we'll have stopped the genocide for NOTHING
Except when they stopped during the last ceasefire.
This is not a long term campaign, they have been extremely clear of what they are doing, why they are doing it and under what terms they will stop.
The Houthi's already stopped their attacks during the temporary ceasefire.
Ukraine, Palestine, or which genocide?
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt since this was a tech article and they didn't bother to report on why Houthi's are carrying a campaign in the Red Sea. It's Palestine, they are disrupting Western interests for their continued support of Isreal as it kills off the native Arab population.
I mean hopefully both. The Yemeni genocide is also pretty bad so if we could do something about that it'd be nice staring at SA and the US.
I think starting one might be more reliable...
You blame entire ethnicities for what's going on and not the capitalist class benefiting from the military industrial complex profiting from the subjugation of indigenous people through colonialism?
That kind of ignorance is exactly how the current shit becomes justified.
You know if they don't post a vid showing off some shiny new submersible soon, then they probably went about it in the jankiest way possible
100 meters is pretty deep for scuba diving too...
I was looking at this back around the Nord Stream stuff.
You can get off-the-shelf small UUVs for like $30k that you could use to plant explosives from a boat.
It's actually a real issue for pipelines, because there's essentially nothing by way of treaties protecting them. Companies just kind of started building them, and nobody has really gone about methodically attacking them yet.
For cables, there's some treaty from the late 19th century, I think signed in Paris, that covers them. Which some countries have signed.
googles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Submarine_Telegraph_Cables
Yeah, 1884.
And even if the Houthis would consider themselves bound by it, Yemen isn't a party to the treaty.
I always hear about how cheap and easy it is to buy aerial drones, but really nothing about UUV's.
$30k seems doable for the Houthi, but prob not something they could mass replicate. And they're pretty limited as to which sections of the pipelines are viable targets.
googles too
I found a small one for $5600 with a 330 ft depth rating. It's tethered, but you could prob extend it:
It is wild how exposed the pipelines are, and there's MILES upon MILES of them. I guess people figured their depth would protect them... But tech keeps getting cheaper, more capable, and more accessible ¯/(ツ)/¯
Based.
Stop the Genocide.
This calls for unleashing the atomic force
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_movement
Size: 200,000 (2020)
Kind of overkill.
When you're so hard for the theocratic oligarchy that you shut down the ability of dissent to spread on the internet outside of your own country
But now they can’t watch porn. Like every time allied troops found a computer of one of these islamic extremists groups in the Middle East it’s usually chock full of porn.
Well that can still watch porn. Just not the latest drop.
And games. There's a non-zero chance that someone teabagged Osama bin laden in counter strike.
What’s wrong with porn?