Severed connections

A string of disruptions to undersea cables in the Baltic and South China and Red Seas has heightened concerns over the security of critical infrastructure.

By Robert Muggah and Misha Glenny

Snip! Snap! Snip! the scissors go;
And Conrad cries out - Oh! Oh! Oh!
Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast;
That both his thumbs are off at last.

From the The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb, Straw Peter

In mid-August, Finnish prosecutors charged the captain and two officers of the Eagle S, a tanker linked to Russia’s “shadow fleet…