A new book was published this week by journalist Samanth Subramanian titled: The Web Beneath the Waves - The Fragile Cables that Connect Our World. Here is the publisher's description of the book: "What if the Internet goes dark? We think of the Internet as wireless, weightless, ever-present—but its true foundation lies in the ocean’s depths, where nearly 900,000 miles of fiber-optic cables quietly pulse with all the world’s information. In The Web Beneath the Waves, the acclaimed journalist Samanth Subramanian travels from remote Pacific islands to secretive cable-laying operations to reveal the astonishing world of undersea infrastructure. He reveals the fate of Tonga after a volcanic eruption severs its only undersea link to the Internet." Emily Forlini, writing for PCMag, published a great review of the book today: "A single underwater cable the size of a garden hose connected Tonga to the outside world—until a natural disaster struck. And it could happen to anyone. It all started with an underwater volcanic eruption. Debris shot into the air, gathering force as it cascaded down the volcano's flanks, plunged back into the ocean, and sliced Tonga's only international internet cable in two places, like cutting out the middle of a submarine sandwich. Now, Tonga was officially alone, with no physical or digital connection to the outside world and no way to call for help. 'I initially thought Tonga would be thrown back, to say, the 1980s, before it had broadband internet,' says Samanth Subramanian. 'But it was more like they went back to the 1880s, around the time they first laid a telegraph line to Tonga, and they would only receive occasional visitors by ship.' Thrown back in time, residents resorted to paper record-keeping for banking (no credit cards), traveled door-to-door to speak to each other, and grew their own food." As disastrous as these cable cuts are on the backbone of Internet worldwide traffic, they pale in comparison to cyberattacks, with daily occurrences in the millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, every single day!