{"id":15463,"date":"2024-08-09T00:37:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T22:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/what-lies-beneath-the-growing-threat-to-the-hidden-network-of-cables-that-power-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T00:37:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T22:37:23","slug":"what-lies-beneath-the-growing-threat-to-the-hidden-network-of-cables-that-power-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/what-lies-beneath-the-growing-threat-to-the-hidden-network-of-cables-that-power-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month large parts of Tonga were left without internet when an undersea cable was broken. It\u2019s a scenario that is far more common than is understood<\/p>\n<p>It was the opening days of 2022, in the aftermath of a huge volcanic eruption, when Tonga went dark. The underwater eruption \u2013 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima \u2013 sent tsunami waves across Tonga\u2019s nearby archipelago and blanketed the island\u2019s white coral sands in ash.<\/p>\n<p>The strength of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha\u2019apai eruption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/14\/tonga-volcano-explosion-equalled-most-powerful-ever-us-nuclear-test\">severed internet connectivity with Tonga<\/a>, causing a communication blackout at just the moment that a crisis was unfolding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/aug\/09\/what-lies-beneath-the-growing-threat-to-the-hidden-network-of-cables-that-power-the-internet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4fc7569e01afb8b80fcb138db7ff2ebeb8a3f36b\/0_0_5122_3074\/master\/5122.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d732260a02b25b605438cb0b15a7d998\" title=\"What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet\" \/>Last month large parts of Tonga were left without internet when an undersea cable was broken. It\u2019s a scenario that is far more common than is understood<br \/>\nIt was the opening days of 2022, in the aftermath of a huge volcanic eruption, when Tonga went dark. The underwater eruption \u2013 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima \u2013 sent tsunami waves across Tonga\u2019s nearby archipelago and blanketed the island\u2019s white coral sands in ash.<br \/>\nThe strength of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha\u2019apai eruption severed internet connectivity with Tonga, causing a communication blackout at just the moment that a crisis was unfolding. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month large parts of Tonga were left without internet when an undersea cable was broken. It\u2019s a scenario that is far more common than is understood It was the opening days of 2022, in the aftermath of a huge volcanic eruption, when Tonga went dark. The underwater eruption \u2013 1,000 times more powerful than &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/what-lies-beneath-the-growing-threat-to-the-hidden-network-of-cables-that-power-the-internet\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}