Undersea Cable Wars: Competition for control of networks brings long-term security risks to the surface

A labyrinth of more than 1.3 million kilometers of fiber-optic cables anchored to the sea floor carries about 95% of telephone and internet communications around the world every day, moving massive amounts of data every second. Everything from financial transactions to military orders passes along this underwater web of more than 475 cables.

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