Submarine cable security is all at sea, and UK govt 'too timid' to act, says report

Guess how much of our direct transatlantic data capacity runs through two cables in Bude?
Feature The first transatlantic cable, laid in 1858, delivered a little over 700 messages before promptly dying a few weeks later. 167 years on, the undersea cables connecting the UK to the outside world process £220 billion in daily financial transactions. Now, the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has told the government that it has to do a better job of protecting them.…