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[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don't understand the motivation in these kinds of attacks. Are they so pissed they just try to hurt everybody on the planet, which would make this the purest form of terrorism? Or are they doing research on the ownership structure of the ISPs responsible for the maintenance?

[–] helmet91@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

I don't understand the motivation in these kinds of attacks.

It's easy: Houthi terrorists are backed by Iranian terrorists and Muscovy terrorists, and all they want is more chaos in the world. That's what terrorists do.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The motivation is to disrupt the global economy by targeting the international communications infrastructure. They attacked communications during their civil war, so it's SOP.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's SOP for any hot or cold war I suppose.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

You'll mostly find internet disruptions within countries themselves. For instance, Pakistan has shut down most of their internet for some time now due to their election results. The internet is used as an organization tool for protests. This resulted in the Arab Spring, among other world events.

[–] janAkali@lemmy.one -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If it was near the shore - they might've stole the section of wire. Copper is really expensive.

[–] noride@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They generally use fiber for cables like this due to the bandwidth requirements.

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

There's a sizable amount of copper too, to power the repeaters