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by nocarrier 946 days ago
“During the period 2018-20, Space Norway carried out significant security related upgrades to the fibre connection.”

Sounds like someone was tapping cables with submarines?

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Only the USS Jimmy Carter has that capability, AFAIK.

Likely more concerned with sabotage, as happened to the Finland-Estonia fiber can pipeline link recently.

I guess they had a sense of foreboding, as in 2022, a Russian fish trawler damaged that cable link: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43828/undersea-cable-c...