Finland: Outage reported after fiber optic cable damaged
Finland: Outage reported after fiber optic cable damaged
Significant internet outages in Finland have been attributed to a damaged fiber optic cable. The Baltic Sea region has seen similar disruptions in recent months.
Summary
A fiber optic cable connecting Sweden and Finland was damaged on land, affecting 6,000 private customers and 100 businesses.
While Finnish authorities are investigating, Swedish officials suspect sabotage.
This incident follows recent undersea cable damage in the Baltic Sea, where two cables were severed in November, raising similar sabotage concerns.
The Baltic region, home to multiple NATO nations and Russia, has seen heightened tensions since the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in 2022.
Previous cases involved sightings of a China-flagged vessel, but Russia has denied involvement in any incidents.
Cutting a couple undersea fiber cables and completely fucking the whole internet is very easy. Humanity has so far just kinda silently agreed to not fuck with that.
I commented this here a few months ago. Looks like the time has come, this is the 3rd cable in the last few days.
To be fair, the non-fuckening has probably been a result of no one being in a conflict that requires hybrid warfare
Proof that Russia/China are not humans
Let's not be xenophobic. Humans can be shitty, no need to marginalise entire countries. Heads of states and ruling parties are the ones to criticise.
Finnish authorities are not investigating. The cable appears to just have been damaged by a digger.
Sometimes I wonder why these important cables appear to be laid all over the place.
The image is from Germany, where in July a farmer dug up part of his field, apparently unaware that a major connection cable was just 60 cm below the ground.
Goddamn diggerz
If this one's a construction accident imagine being any of the people involved. Definitely an "aw shit" moment.
That's some big filament.
Get away from that cable with your hot end!
speaks in radio
"Sir, we found the culprit!"
I'm at a loss at to what is their reasoning doing it.
It won't have any lasting effects except better policing of ships and cables?
Like a baby pushing the sleeping bloodlust viking, then they pour a glass of water on them, waking them up. Then trying to cut them with a pair of scissors...
Why?