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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the-creepy-long-standing-practice-of-undersea-cable-tapping/277855/ https://www.theatlantic.com/intern

https://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 ago
It 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?