The electronic communications and navigation systems the West depends on are vulnerable to Russian attack.
    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      72·
      3 months ago

      They can knock out huge sections. Most of the Middle East was taken offline some years ago with only one cable cut. The old redundant Internet of the Cold War is long gone even within the US. Most of the rest of the world never had redundancy to begin with.

    • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
      129·
      3 months ago

      they’re quite capable of taking out the satellite portion….
      see also: Starfish Prime

      … weird how you just replied to the title of the article without reading it…

      then we have no constraints - even moral - left to prevent us from destroying the ocean floor cable communications of our enemies,

      they’re talking about cutting ocean floor cables…

      and

      In recent months, Russia has been accused of interfering with GPS navigation systems, causing havoc on commercial airline routes. As a result, flights from Helsinki to Tartu, Estonia, ground to a halt for a month in April.

      nothing about nukes.