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The 2007 attacks on Estonia [1] and the cyberattacks before the actual attacks on South Ossetia [2] are generally believed to be a Russian test of its capabilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberattacks_during_the_2008_S...

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I don't exactly remember when it was, I guess around 2005 or before. In a timespan from about 6 months multiple undersee cables had been 'hit by a ship' (pre Snowden, everybody believed the story). One cable was pretty bad, so traffic to asia was almost complet broken for a few days.

I remember this panic. I, and many others, actually learned at that time that anchors damaging undersea cables are actually a common occurrence.

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