{"id":8874,"date":"2017-12-18T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8874"},"modified":"2017-12-25T13:29:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T20:29:29","slug":"8874-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/18\/8874-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Snip-snip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/national-security\/article189221684.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from McClatchy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Here\u2019s how to shut down the internet: Snip undersea fiber-optic cables<\/h1>\n<p>BY TIM JOHNSON<\/p>\n<p><img title=\"A crewman pulls on undersea cable that will be laid in the Caribbean in this 2001 photo from the Port of Miami. The crewman stands in a cable well holding 120 miles of cable.\" srcset=\"\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/national-security\/j9udi\/picture189221674\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1140\/0201101639\" alt=\"A crewman pulls on undersea cable that will be laid in the Caribbean in this 2001 photo from the Port of Miami. The crewman stands in a cable well holding 120 miles of cable.\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"caption-text\">A crewman pulls on undersea cable that will be laid in the Caribbean in this 2001 photo from the Port of Miami. The crewman stands in a cable well holding 120 miles of cable. <\/span><span class=\"photographer\">Charles Trainor Jr.<\/span> <span class=\"credits\">Miami Herald<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lay on the ocean floors, a crucial part of the global internet\u2019s backbone, and only rarely do ship anchors, undersea landslides or saboteurs disrupt them.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a few voices now call for stronger global mechanisms and even military action to protect the cables against future malicious activity by states, saboteurs or extremists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe infrastructure that underpins the internet \u2013 these undersea cables \u2013 are clearly vulnerable,\u201d said <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rishisunak.com\/about-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rishi Sunak<\/a>, a British member of Parliament and champion of more vigorous action to protect submarine networks. \u201cThey underpin pretty much everything that we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Undersea cables conduct nearly 97 percent of all global communications, and every day an estimated $10 trillion in financial transfers and vast amounts of data pass through the seabed routes. Satellites, once crucial but now limited in speed and bandwidth, handle only a tiny percentage of global communications.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/national-security\/article189221684.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at McClatchy<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from McClatchy Here\u2019s how to shut down the internet: Snip undersea fiber-optic cables BY TIM JOHNSON A crewman pulls on undersea cable that will be laid in the Caribbean in this 2001 photo from the Port of Miami. The crewman stands in a cable well holding 120 miles of cable. Charles Trainor Jr. Miami Herald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}