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UK Eyes New Law as 1885 Telegraph Act Proves Inadequate for Cable Sabotage
Wednesday July 2, 2025. 04:40 PM , from Slashdot
![]() The government's Strategic Defence Review proposes a new defence readiness bill to cover state-sponsored cybercrime and subsea cable attacks. Chris Bryant, minister of state for data protection and telecoms, said fines could be increased to 5,000 pound ($6,850) through secondary legislation but 'that just doesn't seem to meet the needs of the situation.' Recent incidents include Sweden's deployment of forces to the Baltic Sea following suspected Russian attacks on underwater data cables in January. The China Strategic Risks Institute found that eight of ten identified vessels in 12 sabotage incidents between January 2021 and April 2025 were linked to China or Russia through registration or ownership. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/02/1136225/uk-eyes-new-law-as-1885-telegraph-act-proves-inadeq...
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