00:00When I look at the map of subsea cables going across the Strait of Hormuz, it's like Saudi
00:05Arabia connecting to, I guess, Iran. Can they cripple the global internet by snapping those
00:11cables in particular? Or would it just cripple the connectivity between, you know, the countries
00:16that are sort of clustered around there? It would definitely impede the countries
00:19clustered around there. But we also have to remember that the internet doesn't function
00:22like a highway in the sense that the fastest route between two points is not necessarily the
00:27shortest route. So, for example, if I'm sitting in London and I'm sort of pinging a server
00:33in, let's say, Portugal, it may well be that at that particular moment, and this router is making
00:39the decision for me, the shortest route is to France and then onward to Portugal by land rather
00:46than through sea throughout. I see. It may also be that I live in Saudi Arabia, but I'm a Gmail
00:51user
00:52and my Gmail data is being stored somewhere else. It's being stored maybe in Western Europe or it's
00:57being stored even in the US. You don't know which server your data lives on at all. And so when
01:03you
01:03sort of cut a bunch of cables that service that particular part of the world, you're also essentially
01:09forcing the rest of the internet to reroute itself constantly until these cables are fixed.
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