How microphones will help protect UK’s £65,000,000,000 undersea cables from Putin

The cables will turn the ocean floor into a ‘continuous array of microphones’ (Picture: BAE Systems)You can’t see them from space, but a network of critical undersea cables powers the UK.The wires and pipelines carry over 90% of the nation’s daily internet traffic and are worth £65bn to the economy.The race is on to protect these lifelines, which are currently ‘naked’ and ‘incredibly vulnerable’ to sabotage from Russia and other states.Metro