Submarine cables, strands of optical fiber ensuring the transport of data and internet communications, are veritable global digital highways. Highly strategic, these infrastructures are regularly damaged, as in the Baltic Sea, causing the opening of investigations in Sweden and Finland for sabotage. Incidents on submarine cables are regular. The cause: underwater landslides, tsunamis, but also the passage of boats.
Sensitive infrastructure, these pipes can however be subject to sabotage and espionage attempts. A form of hybrid war, particularly against Russia. This telecommunications network transmits from one continent to another an immense quantity of data of different natures.
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