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Probably not what happened here but has there ever been a case of a cable getting cut to force all traffic through a compromised node?


With the wide spread use of SSL that is unlikely to be useful for pretty much anything.


Maybe.

2 weeks after mass graves were found outside Kyiv. 2 days after Macron wins the election and is congratulated by Putin. Tensions were heightened in unusual ways. Motive was probably not in short supply.

Disgruntled worker Vandalism? Anti-tech vandalism? Attack on broad flows of traffic by a nation-state?

Or maybe a highly targeted attack against an unidentified victim entity who relied on multiple redundant links for security/comms in a sexy French movie-style heist? Someone should check to see if the Mona Lisa has been replaced with a fake.




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