I don’t understand the motivation in these kinds of attacks. Are they so pissed they just try to hurt everybody on the planet, which would make this the purest form of terrorism? Or are they doing research on the ownership structure of the ISPs responsible for the maintenance?
The motivation is to disrupt the global economy by targeting the international communications infrastructure. They attacked communications during their civil war, so it’s SOP.
You’ll mostly find internet disruptions within countries themselves. For instance, Pakistan has shut down most of their internet for some time now due to their election results. The internet is used as an organization tool for protests. This resulted in the Arab Spring, among other world events.
I don’t understand the motivation in these kinds of attacks.
It’s easy: Houthi terrorists are backed by Iranian terrorists and Muscovy terrorists, and all they want is more chaos in the world. That’s what terrorists do.
Most infrastructure in the world is not defended against any attacks. Doing so would cost far too much money. We’re talking about thousands of miles of cable.
The best defense is trying to not piss off people by committing Genocide.
There’s a lot of Saudi oil refineries right next to Yemen. If bombardments on Yemen get out of hand they still have the option to wreck the world economy.
Back in the 1970’s (?) the US Navy sent submarines into Soviet Union coastal areas to tap undersea cables. Locating them even at a depth isn’t terribly difficult…
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