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Do you have any references about these spying breaks? This is the first I've heard of it and it is fascinating.
by abnry 7y ago
Do you have any references about these spying breaks? This is the first I've heard of it and it is fascinating.
- ForHackernews 7y agohttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the-creepy-long-standing-practice-of-undersea-cable-tapping/277855/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/th... I've never heard that they break the cables, but rather "bend" them so that light leaks out of the fibre.
- jlgaddis 7y agoIt seems that'd be pretty easy to do that with, e.g., a few strands of SMF running across a datacenter, but I'd imagine it's a bit more difficult to "bend" a bundle of, say, 144 strands that are encased in a few inches of copper and steel, no?