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title: Your Private Messages Might Travel Under This Beach — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/your-private-messages-might-travel-under-this-beach/
date: 2018-08-20
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# Your Private Messages Might Travel Under This Beach

In Porthcurno, Cornwall, there’s an old telegraph cable landing station. It’s how Britain talked to the Empire — and it’s now a museum. But the technology here isn’t quite as obsolete as you might think.