Tangential, after reading the description of the archipelago.
Sweden is the country with most islands in the world, followed by Norway and Finland.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-countries-have-the...
Good thing they have a giant neon green spindle of fiber optic cable right next to the discreet cabin to help it blend in..
“security through obscurity” and then go on a publish it in a news paper?
Can someone provide some context here because I dont understand what is going on here.
The russians are pretty much totally dependent on Scandinavia not shutting down / blockading their ocean access like Turkey has somewhat effectively done in the Black Sea.
Russia is being really stupid in my opinion. They are antagonizing a far superior military force. The nuclear risk is obvious, but it seems that Europe will have to escalate the conventional conflict in Ukraine with more direct action.
Europe has to do some "growing up" militarily. At least it appears that Finland and Poland have their act together
Letting the Guardian publish on article about the cabin is the opposite of security through obscurity.
Probably a stupid question, but why don't we encase the (undersea) cable in some metal container or something so that it would not be so easy to break? Is it due to economics? Is the constant fixing in the end cheaper than making it hard to break, or perhaps it needs maintenance anyway often enough to make it a hassle?
I looked at submarinecablemap.com and there are 4 cables going from Helsinki Findland to Tallinn Estonia. Is that just for redundancy? I would think it's expensive to add more cables between two points when so many other locations are a dead end.
I wonder if sea cables could be designed with some mechanism that could stand being dragged and even crossed somewhere but returning later to its position automatically with a click. Something like a giant karabiner.
So perhaps for Finland its not the wisest strategical move to push critical IT services into Azure?
If Westerners don't like getting invaded, then they should stop invading or destabilising countries themselves. Might do the trick.
Why write about it then?
Even if you assume that enemies' intelligence already knows about it, then doesnt it just show that it doesn't work?
Or maybe it is just fake cabin?
> With governments in northern Europe on high alert over hybrid Russian activity, the Guardian was given exclusive access to the Stockholm datacentre site.
Yeah, ever thought about why?
> [T]he Guardian was given exclusive access to the Stockholm datacentre site. […] Daniel Aldstam, the chief security officer at GlobalConnect, which transports 50% of the internet capacity of the Nordics and runs the centre, described the approach to its location and ordinary outward appearance as “security through obscurity”.
How do you do that facepalm emoji on HN?
Looking at the sea charts[1] of the archipelago and following a few undersea cables, I think it might be this cabin[2], which roughly matches with a map on GlobalConnects website[3].
Funnily enough, it's right next to a base of the Swedish military.
[1]: https://geokatalog.sjofartsverket.se/kartvisarefyren/
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1bn concurrent streams is a lot. Can satellites handle the same or more?
There is no hybrid war. just war and a useless generation of politicians unable to deal with a return of the ugly old world of colonial powers, starved up ans carved up nations all scrambling to get nukes.
The dictators all told us to our face what they would do in their propaganda . Nothing overt, hidden or hybrid . We need the hawks back that won the cold war and we need those doves caged in their own delusions gone.
A good timing for this article, because today there was again somebody breaking the cables between Finland and Estonia.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20133531