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two subsea cables linking australia to the global internet developed shunt faults close together in both location and time, with vessel activity nearby prompting deliberate-damage theories. in the same cycle five 132kv transmission towers on the ikot abasi-eket line in nigeria's akwa ibom state collapsed from what is reported as coordinated vandalism, and a third copper theft of 2026 cut telecoms in northwest british columbia. three separate continents, same pattern: physical layer attacked or stolen rather than hacked.

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