Everyone'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

Ars 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.”

Weekend 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

#BGP #DNS #IPv6 #ICANN #India #SubseaCables

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

#BGP #ASPA #HTTP2 #SubseaCables #Passwords

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

#BGP #NTP #SubseaCables #IPv4 #Geolocation

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Monitoring Subsea Cables in Orkney’s Northern Isles

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/01/28/monitoring-subsea-cables-in-orkneys-northern-isles/