Fear of the dark: Taiwan sees wartime frailty in communication links with world
Taipei, Taiwan Reuters Taiwan is scrambling to secure its communications with the outside world against an attack by China, but even in peacetime cannot quickly repair critical undersea internet cables and lacks suitable satellite backups, experts and officials say. China, which has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control, has […]
Essay: The Tonga volcanic eruption has revealed the vulnerabilities in our global telecommunication system
In an article published on The Conversation, DALE DOMINEY-HOWES, professor of hazards and disaster risk science at the University of Sydney, looks at what events on Tonga reveal about the risks to global communication systems…