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“During the period 2018-20, Space Norway carried out significant security related upgrades to the fibre connection.”

Sounds like someone was tapping cables with submarines?



Only the USS Jimmy Carter has that capability, AFAIK.

Likely more concerned with sabotage, as happened to the Finland-Estonia fiber can pipeline link recently.


I guess they had a sense of foreboding, as in 2022, a Russian fish trawler damaged that cable link: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43828/undersea-cable-c...




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