A damaged Egypt-Syria submarine cable forced traffic onto alternate routes through Cyprus and Turkey, showing how critical internet resilience depends on physical redundancy as much as software security.
A reported Iranian plan to tax submarine-cable traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is less about billing than about control over a narrow communications corridor that underpins regional connectivity.
A proposal to charge and license submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz is less about malware than about control, access, and the fragile economics of global connectivity.
As modern warfare goes digital, the resilience of the global Internet faces its greatest test yet.