Get The Brief🩳 Short: The internet cables on the ocean floor had almost no legal protection. Until now. #News #Tech #Infrastructure #SubseaCables #GetTheBrief
The Keystone CollectiveEveryone's writing about Iran charging for internet cables.
The actual story: Alcatel just stopped fixing them.
Iran's fee demands are legally unenforceable and affect less than 1% of global bandwidth, but ASN pausing Gulf repairs while Red Sea cables remain degraded from Houthi damage? That's a real gap with no easy fix.
Two chokepoints, one repair fleet.
#geopolitics #osint #subseacables #iran #hormuz #maritimesecurity #criticalinfrastructure
How realistic is threat of Iran charging to use internet cables under strait of Hormuz?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/18/iran-threat-internet-cables-strait-hormuz
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseArs Technica: New undersea cable cutter risks Internet’s backbone. “A Chinese ship has tested a new device capable of slicing through submarine data cables thousands of meters beneath the ocean surface. That demonstration may exacerbate security concerns over a spate of suspected sabotage incidents targeting undersea communications and power cables from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/23/ars-technica-new-undersea-cable-cutter-risks-internets-backbone/
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Ars Technica NewsNew undersea cable cutter risks Internet’s backbone https://arstechni.ca/Dzsy #underseacablecuts #submarinecables #subseacables #Tech
John KristoffWeekend Reads
* Building a BGP map
https://kmcd.dev/posts/live-internet-map/
* Measuring DNS over IPv6
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2026-02/v6dns.html
* ICANN root system governance
https://circleid.com/posts/icanns-ultimate-demise
* India DNS censorship examined
https://dnsblocks.in/assets/report.pdf
* Charting traceroute through subsea cables
https://aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/publication/2026/cwang-imc26/CWang-IMC26.pdf
Weekend Reads
* Peering market evolution
https://blog.lacnic.net/en/peering-market-at-a-glance/
* BGP path security with ASPA
https://blog.cloudflare.com/aspa-secure-internet/
* HTTP/2 from scratch part 2
https://kmcd.dev/posts/http2-from-scratch-part-2/
* First subsea optic cable removal
https://www.wired.com/story/say-goodbye-to-the-undersea-cable-that-made-the-global-internet-possible/
* Password managers comparative analysis
https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058.pdf
LACNIC Blog | Peering market at a glance
By Flavio Luciani, Namex CTO and John Souter, Namex Advisor Trends, transformations, and regional dynamics of Internet interconnection Abstract Over the past decade, the Internet’s interconnection landscape has been shaped by sustained traffic growth, changing content distribution models, and increasingly complex relationships between networks. Internet Exchange Points sit at the center of these dynamics, yet […]
Weekend Reads
* Peering market at a glance
https://labs.ripe.net/media/documents/Peering_market_at_a_glance.pdf
* Measuring NTP pool's robustness
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/on-borrowed-time-measurement-informed-understanding-of-the-ntp-pools-robustness-to-monopoly-attacks/
* EU subsea cable security report
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/submarine-cable-security-toolbox-and-cable-projects-european-interest
* Observing address bogons in-the-wild
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/aliens-among-us-observing-private-or-reserved-ips-on-the-public-internet/
* IP address registration geo-consistency
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11102
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The Orkney News [Unofficial]Monitoring Subsea Cables in Orkney’s Northern Isles
