r/NoShitSherlock • u/Robthebold • 1d ago

Russia-linked cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland ‘was loaded with spying equipment’

https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1151955/Russia-linked-cable-cutting-tanker-seized-by-Finland-was-loaded-with-spying-equipment
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u/5upertaco 1d ago

Finland for the win!

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u/MillhouseNickSon 1d ago

I kinda feel like this subreddit could just be called “shit Russia does” at this point.

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u/kurotech 1d ago

Or America is a capitalist hellscape either one works

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u/Moms-Dildeaux 5h ago

Why not both?

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u/essenceofreddit 17h ago

How much do you wanna bet the cable was cut in an unsuccessful attempt to install a packet sniffer 

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u/Robthebold 17h ago

Hadn’t thought of that one. Just assumed Russia playing disruptive games.

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u/workster 6h ago

I'm not any sort of expert on all of this so would it have to be as just one or the other?

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u/Zealousideal_Ear2135 6h ago

Whats a packet sniffer for laypeople out there?

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u/michuhl 5h ago

To put it in the simplest way, it can read internet traffic

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u/BrtFrkwr 1d ago

I'm shocked! Shocked!, there was spy equipment on board that ship.

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u/Robthebold 1d ago

Your intelligence data sir…

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u/youneedbadguyslikeme 3h ago

Give them life in jail

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u/thefirebrigades 15h ago

It was Chinese a few weeks ago. Lol

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u/BlockOfASeagull 13h ago

It was a different ship, wasn‘t it?

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u/ApostleofV8 13h ago

different ship, different cable that got cut, and it was Sweden(another country) that caught the chinese one

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u/Automatic_Towel_3842 6h ago

I think Russia were the ones that cut the cable, but Chinese actually got caught messing with them. Something like that.

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u/ApostleofV8 4h ago

Chinese ship(Yi Peng 3) with Russian crew.

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u/thefirebrigades 2m ago

Iranians probably also involved somehow.