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bastawhiz on Feb 26, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Submarine cables cut in the Red Sea.Authorities lo...

Didn't the Houthis threaten to do this last month?

https://gulfif.org/the-next-casualty-of-the-red-sea-attacks-...

What's the practical effect of this? Other than some inconvenient latency and decreased redundancy...not as much as the headlines suggested?

dontknowmuch on Feb 26, 2024 [–]

Can't be cheap to repair it.

senectus1 on Feb 26, 2024 | [–]

no, and pretty impressive if they managed it. I'm getting the feeling they're an underestimated force

rightbyte on Feb 27, 2024 | | [–]

You need a boat and an anchor. People do stuff like this all the time by accident.

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