Finland boards oil tanker suspected of causing internet, power cable outages

[gnabgib]

Related Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia suffers damage (86 points, 19 hours ago, 85 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42513761

Previously (12 points, 9 hours ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42516864

[veeter]

My bad, searched for finland quickly on the homepage and didn't see anything so figured I would post it.

[bigfatkitten]

https://archive.is/D4E9n

[veeter]

I believe this is the third incident in recent months.

Who would possibly have it out for Finland to not be a player in the internet market?

I am slightly concerned about the Helsinki cloud instances I've setup recently on Hetzner now as a result.

[gibbitz]

The target is Estonia. Putin should have them in his sights for sentimental reasons as one of the first "break-away" republics from the former Soviet Union. Additionally this could be seen as punitive some the Nordic countries have sided with NATO against Russia since Ukraine.