The Trolled War

According the NYT, the U.S. government is very concerned about Russian ships and subs that have been getting quite close to the undersea cables that carry most of our Internet communications: “The ultimate Russian hack on the United States could involve severing the fiber-optic cables at some of their hardest-to-access locations to halt the instant communications on which the West’s governments, economies and citizens have grown dependent.” The new cold war just got a lot more chilling.