Das chinesische staatliche Unternehmen, das als Eigentümer von drei Datenkabeln in der Ostsee bekannt ist, kann auf Daten zugreifen
https://www.hs.fi/tutkiva/art-2000011509873.html
Von teftelis07
Das chinesische staatliche Unternehmen, das als Eigentümer von drei Datenkabeln in der Ostsee bekannt ist, kann auf Daten zugreifen
https://www.hs.fi/tutkiva/art-2000011509873.html
Von teftelis07
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Source in Finnish and behind a paywall. Some information on what it says in the article.
„It has been revealed that a Chinese state-owned company, Citic Telecom CPC, owns three submarine data cables in the Baltic Sea linking Finland, Estonia, and Sweden. These cables handle massive amounts of internet traffic between NATO countries meaning Beijing has direct influence over part of Europe’s digital backbone.
Citic Telecom CPC is ultimately controlled by the Chinese state through the Citic Group. Whoever owns a cable can technically access or redirect the data running through it from private communications to government traffic.
The ownership has been known to Finnish and Estonian authorities since 2019 but never openly debated. Meanwhile, the U.S. already banned Citic operations on national security grounds.
The cables even have Estonian government agencies and defense forces listed as customers. With 99% of the world’s internet traffic moving via undersea cables, this raises serious concerns over European security and data exposure.“
and Then they want to have Chat Control. Is this a joke?
😳
These cables must be put under the control of a European company, wtf.
China does what USA does.
Big shocker.
I suppose these are the ones the russian conspiciously do not cut
Its not good. However, basically all modern web traffic is encrypted as default. So snooping on the data wouldn’t reveal much. Worst case they could see the IP addresses and DNS hostnames
I wonder what % of the traffic going over these cables is unencrypted.
Use MACSEC.
Ha! Why cut the cables when you can just own them?
This is just plain stupid, the EU needs to wake up!
Do European companies own any of our international critical Infrastructure?
Well this is alarming
Dafuq?
The Finnish government selling this kind of infrastructure to China does not surprise me at all. Those corrupt fucks are only after quick profit.
The same with the US. The US can legally access all data residing on computers any where in the world that are managed by American companies.
[The CLOUD Act – Wikipedia ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act)
>*The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena t****o provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil.***
The US CLOUD Act was passed by the first Trump administration.