Australian Broadcasting Corporation's website published an article entitled by underwater cables in the global communication, security and world economy in the global communication, security and world economy.The full text is as follows:
Thinking of global communication, people may think of satellites over the earth.However, most of the world's communication is actually transmitted through hundreds of thousands of coarse details such as garden hose.Most countries rely on submarine cable communication, but these countries may conflict due to geopolitics and international tensions.
When the submarine cable is damaged, cut off or interfered, the situation sometimes becomes very difficult.Many countries are seriously dependent on submarine cables to help maintain economic operation and maintain security.
Reuters reporter in Singapore, Joe Brock, said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "These cables carry 99%of Internet traffic that runs through the mainland, so this includes your video calls, stock market transactions, conference calls, military operations, military operationsWait for everything. "
Research Analyst Ryan Berode said that governments have always been interested in these underwater cables, "this is because the government depends on them from the perspective of communication."
Bernart works at the Telecom Geographical Research Corporation, a company headquartered in Washington's collection and analysis of communication data.She said: "The submarine cable has always been important for geopolitics. However, I think the geopolitical situation in the past ten years, especially the potential underwater war, has intensified. Therefore, people are paying more and more attention to submarine cables."
Worries about using submarine cables to engage in spy activities and extract sensitive data have always existed.For example, Brock said that American intelligence agencies "claiming that China and other countries can install back doors on the cables to change the transmission path of data ... Your private data may be obtained by intelligence agencies."
These concerns are well -founded.History shows that submarine cables have been cut off before.Once a country is cut off, it is more vulnerable to attack.(Compilation/Zhao Feifei)
