Undersea communication cables: Critical infrastructure and vulnerable

16/03/2025 28 min
Undersea communication cables: Critical infrastructure and vulnerable

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Episode Synopsis


Over 95% of the world’s communications travels over undersea cables. In the last few months, in two of the most politically volatile regions of the world, the Baltic Sea and the waters around Taiwan, communication cables have been cut. So just how vulnerable are these cables to both accidental and malicious damage and what does this mean for the security of are our communications networks.