No bombs, no warning: Britain’s next war will begin beneath the sea with a total internet shutdown, power blackouts and financial chaos
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/russia-undersea-war-uk-internet-shutdown-critical-infrastructure-threat-5HjdQxt_2/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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At least it will solve the problems social media causes in society.
Every cloud, eh?
Says security consultant selling anti undersea sabotage tactical devices
…do they know something we don’t or is that a threat?
Another reason to say “f” the cloud, AI, subscription model and own the things you want to use. Something that’s getting ever more difficult to do.
No money in our bank accounts, no cash in the banks, no food in Aldi … sounds like Boxing Day….
I think most of the City will have satellite related back-up systems.
Fuck it bring it on if there’s no power that means I don’t need to go to work.
If it’s with America there’s no need to target infrastructure- the next war won’t start with attacks on undersea cables it starts with a phone call
They call VISA and tell them to stop any operations in the UK
They call AWS and Azure and tell them to stop any traffic going into the UK – we lose gov.uk, the bbc, plenty of news sites, and loads of retail stores that have their back end built on AWS, parcel companies no longer able to deliver or route parcels to depots automatically etc.
They call cloudflare and tell them to stop traffic into the uk, we lose plenty of uk hosted businesses using that service as well as non us ones too.
We get crippled with less than 5 phone calls.
And then the economic threats start.
Hey your software companies use GitHub to store all their code. How many back it up locally – because it’s getting deleted if you don’t comply
Your businesses store their data in AWS and Azure do they have local backups because all that gets deleted if you don’t comply
Suddenly there’s this huge pressure that big businesses who have moved all their data into the cloud and rely on the cloud to back it up are about to lose everything.
They could economically devastate the UK without firing a shot.
Easily saw this coming with the Russian ships circling UK waters having a look at our undersea cables.
Surely this has been obvious.
Has everyone forgotten all of those reports from a few years ago, about Russian merchant ships “casually” loitering within our waters… At locations precisely where the underground cables are? When said locations aren’t widely publicised.
It was really transparent, even to an observant member of the public, that the Russian government was saying “by the way, we know where the cables and pipelines are, just remember that, no reason, just keep it in mind”.
Two days of no internet tiktoks and the whole country will be in flames.
So you say the gvt of the day will have shut down the Royal Navy, so our theoretical enemy can put dozens of ships around us to destroy cables without us knowing?
Hmm, something seems a bit paranoid about this article.
To be fair these cables are literally the arteries of our modern societies
Do you guys think fish and chips will be exempt from rationing laws again?
I wonder if it would be worth us having our own “Intranet” like a local internet accessible just on home soil which hosts its own version of important sites? Wikipedia being one. Anything educational, the latest news, etc. A government news and update thing, maybe our own “public square” like what Twitter used to be, but UK only. Just something to refer to if we lost access to the wider web.
I think with the recent outages in the technology infra,(inc the AWS issue we saw in November last year) I do suspect to see more and more in near future but I think we are to lose as we depend on lot of services such as AWS, Azure, Visa and other providers based in the US.
What services do US depend on here in the UK?
One this is fore sure and I agree is it would be absolute chaos.
What’s the best way to keep in touch with people if something like this happens though? Many of us don’t even have landlines any more.
or just cut the ones near tower of london, right from the new chinese embassy
Can we briefly talk a bit about how insane it is that there will be another war? 95% of people are connected and don’t want to kill each other, yet it’s accepted as fact that there are a few cunts out there that can make us do that?
Just a small aside but this is exactly why we still need cash.
Guess this is like the one reason starlink is useful
Who cares if tiktok isnt accessible – when they blockade the LNG & crude shipments there will be no heat and power anyways.
Be good to finally get off social media; the world would be a better place.
Solar panels gonna pay off big time.
No, you can’t use my washing machine.
Half of the Internet content is already blocked in UK, I may not even notice when they shut it down.