Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 7/15/23
Undersea cable firm's outsized surveillance role, Real-time surveillance centers, AI's doom-and-gloom, The state of cybersecurity in Malaysia, US chip bans against China, Threads' privacy posture
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Inside the subsea cable firm secretly helping America take on China
Reuters’ Joe Brock profiles SubCom, a small-town New Jersey cable manufacturer playing an outsized role in the tech race between the United States and China, as one of the world’s most prominent developers of undersea fiber-optic cables for telecom firms and tech giants like Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms, but also an exclusive undersea cable contractor to the US military, laying a web of internet and surveillance cables across the ocean floor.
SubCom is owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a New York-based private equity firm th…
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