“The Russians have rediscovered the art of dragging the seabed for cables and cutting them”

The recent assaults on undersea cables that make the internet work open up questions about businesses’ reliance on faraway servers

STEVE CASSIDY

The most important book in my modest collection of tech literature is pictured opposite. How the World Was One is a dreadful pun of a title, by scientist, wartime boffin and sci-fi author Arthur C Clarke. It’s his account of how several generations of communications engineers connected together the world’s political classes, by way of telegraph Morse code, telephony voice signals and eventually the internet. What has this to do with 2025? Because the Russians seem to have rediscovered the fine art of dragging the seabed for submarine cables and cutting them. A sufficient number of those cables carry regular, public internet traffic to make this wholly relevant to 2025. And, more pointedly, to make your cloud resources and your backup/restore technology truly location independent. I will, now and then,…

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