martes, 1 de septiembre de 2020

CS Alert, o, los eternos deja vu

Uds habran leido cosas de conectarse a Fibra Optica para interceptar datos, leer datos, etc y asi ad nauseam
Bueno, como dijo nuestro filosofo importado de Ipacarai, tu no has inventado nada

De paso, Uds veran que la centralizacion de Internet es por algo vio



CS Alert, or HMTS Alert, was a cable-laying ship that had a significant role in World War I. She was launched in 1871 for the Submarine Telegraph Company with the name The Lady Carmichael. In 1890 the ship was acquired by the General Post Office (GPO) as part of the nationalisation of the British telegraph network. At the outbreak of World War I, Alert was immediately dispatched to cut German telegraph cables in the English Channel, seriously damaging Germany's ability to securely communicate with the rest of the worldAlert was taken out of service as a cable ship in 1915 but her cable-handling gear was retained for fitting on her replacement. After the war, she worked as a merchant ship under various names, finally being wrecked at Redcar under the name Norham in 1932.

War work

CS Alert side view, based on a photograph by W. R. Culley, chief electrician (chief engineer) aboard Alert[15]
When Britain entered World War I, one of its first acts was to order the cutting of German submarine telegraph cables around the world. At the time, Britain dominated the worldwide telegraph network. The idea was to force German communication on to radio where it could be intercepted more easily. This would give British codebreakers a better chance of gaining useful information. Without telegraph connections, Germany could only directly communicate with locations outside Europe, through its high-power radio transmitter at Nauen. This included its African colonies and the United States. A few hours after war was declared at 11 p.m. on 4 August 1914, Alert was sent out from Dover on a planned mission to drag for, and cut, German cables in the English Channel.[16] On board, and in charge of the operation, was Superintendent Bourdeaux. He was the only man on board who knew the purpose of the Alert's secret mission as she set sail, and it was his job to ensure the correct cables were cut.[17]
There were five cables in the Channel linking Germany directly to France, Spain and the Azores, and indirectly to the rest of the world. Alert was not accompanied by a Royal Navy escort (none could be spared), which put her in danger of interception by German warships. Four cables were cut overnight, starting with the cable to Spain. In deteriorating weather, Alert struggled with the fifth cable, losing many of the grapples in her store to damage. A flotilla of unidentified destroyers was spotted approaching, but Alert continued her work and succeeded in cutting the cable just as they arrived. The destroyers turned out to be French, and after interrogating Alert and discovering she was cutting German cables, the French crew raised a cheer.[18] Cutting the channel cables almost completely cut off telegraph connections to Germany.[19]
Many sources incorrectly report that the Channel cables were cut by CS Telconia.[20] It has been established from archives that this is not the case and that CS Alert was the ship responsible.[21]
One of the most serious consequences of the cable cutting for Germany was that Britain was able to intercept and decode the Zimmermann telegram. This was an attempt by Germany to make a secret alliance with Mexico who stood to gain United States territory as a result. Without a secure telegraph connection of their own to the Americas, the Germans were allowed to use the US diplomatic telegraph link, which the US believed would assist peace efforts. Unfortunately for the Germans, this supposedly secure route went through Britain and was listened to by British intelligence. The British claimed they had intercepted the telegram in Mexico to avoid the embarrassment of admitting they were listening to American diplomatic traffic. The revelation of this German duplicity was partly responsible for the US later entering the war.

Todo esto a que viene?

Google and Facebook abandon Hong Kong landing of new submarine cable

There be dragons, say US authorities, so first planned US-HK cable darkens its last leg

Google and Facebook have dumped plans to build an undersea cable between the US and Hong Kong after after US security agencies warned that Beijing could use the link to infiltrate American networks.
In a revised proposal [PDF] submitted to the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) late last week, the consortium building the Pacific Light Cable Network re-filed its plans and kept landing points in Taiwan and the Philippines, but conspicuously left out the Hong Kong arm of its planned cable.
Google and Facebook have each funded the project, with Pacific Light Data Communications (PLDR), a Hong Kong-based company, set to own four of the project's six fibre-optic pairs
Google, Facebook, and PDLR originally proposed the project, called the Pacific Light Cable Network, in 2017. The cable, which was originally slated to run 13,900km from the US west coast to Taiwan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong, was touted as the first submarine cable directly connecting Hong Kong and the USA.
At the time, PLDC was owned by Wei Junkang, a Chinese steel and real estate magnate. But in December 2017, the company was sold on to Dr Peng Telecom & Media Group, a private broadband provider based in Beijing.
The sale worried US security agencies, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal. Dr Peng works closely with Huawei, which is on the Trump administration's naughty list, as well as on various state projects, including a surveillance network for the Beijing police.
After months of deliberations, US agencies recommended in July that the FCC approve the Taiwan and Philippine sections of the project, but not the Hong Kong section. They also asked Google and Facebook to enter a national security agreement with the Trump Administration.
Today's refiling shows Google and Facebook following those recommendations . The filing only seeks the FCC to approve the Philippine and Taiwan section of the project.
Although the filing confirms that the The Hong Kong section of the cable is currently built, the companies "are not seeking authority" to operate the section.
“We can confirm that the original application for the PLCN cable system has been withdrawn, and a revised application for the US-Taiwan and US-Philippines portions of the system has been submitted," a Google spokesperson said in a statement. "We continue to work through established channels to obtain cable landing licenses for our undersea cables.” Facebook declined to comment.
Google separately won in April approval to operate the Taiwan section of the project for six months.
The change in plans for the cable looks to be a win for the USA's Clean Network plan, which aims to "ensure that People’s Republic of China (PRC) carriers are not connected with U.S. telecommunications networks. Such companies pose a danger to U.S. national security and should not provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States." ®

afanado, como lo dicta nuestro patrono Victor


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