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Swedish authorities track Chinese vessel to scene of Baltic cable breaks (www.irishtimes.com)

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Swedish authorities say they have detected a Chinese ship moving near two telecoms cables that failed within hours of each other on the Baltic Sea bed in recent days.

Prosecutors in Stockholm have launched a preliminary investigation into suspected sabotage, hours after Germany dubbed the cable failure part of a “hybrid operation”.

On Sunday morning at about 10am, Swedish authorities registered problems with a data cable under the Baltic Sea from the Öland island to Lithuania. At 4am on Monday, telecoms operators in Finland and Germany reported problems with another cable called C-Lion-1.

Both cables were damaged in the Swedish economic zone, prompting prosecutors in Stockholm to take the investigation lead.

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[–] card797@champserver.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's time to start militarily defending our infrastructure. Like yesterday!

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm curious how difficult that would be.

[–] card797@champserver.net 1 points 1 week ago

Satellites submarines and ships should be able to handle the observation. The three s's of the apocalypse.