The Internet’s undersea backbone is slipping into the danger zone
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尽管卫星通信扩展，全球大部分互联网流量仍依赖海底光缆。这些光缆与油气管道、海底电力电缆共存，随着灰色地带战争和公开冲突蔓延，面临日益加剧的破坏风险。大西洋理事会高级研究员Elisabeth Braw在新书《海底战争》中探讨了从波罗的海到太平洋的可疑事件。她指出，约60%的海底光缆损坏主要源于渔业和航运活动中的人为失误，风暴和海底滑坡等自然因素占比较小。每年约
Despite the expansion of Starlink and other communications satellite services, most of the world’s Internet traffic still travels through subsea cables crisscrossing the ocean floors. Those fiber-optic cables coexist with a network of oil and gas pipelines and submarine power cables—and all these crucial links connecting countries and continents now face growing sabotage risks as gray-zone warfare and open conflicts have become widespread.
The rising risks to the world’s invisible infrastructure beneath the waves are the main subject of a new book by Elisabeth Braw, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who leads the Threats to the Global Maritime Order Initiative. Her book, titled Undersea War, explores the modern rise in suspicious incidents in which ships dragging their anchors for unusually long periods have cut or damaged undersea cables and pipelines from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean.
Braw acknowledges that about 60 percent of undersea cable damage is primarily due to human error during fishing and shipping activities, when weighted nets or anchors drag across the seabed. Natural hazards such as storms and undersea landslides also account for a smaller proportion of such incidents. In total, between 150 and 200 cables are damaged each year and usually repaired quickly.
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