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Most certainly. You don’t land a cable in either the US or France without a classified annex to the license that provides for interconnection to their intellige
by gnu8 6y ago
Most certainly. You don’t land a cable in either the US or France without a classified annex to the license that provides for interconnection to their intelligence services.
- _Understated_ 6y agoLet's say they do tap the cables (I reckon they do too but in case they don't) what can they actually see if the traffic is encrypted?
- ssijak 6y agoAnd at 250tb passing by every second
- Keyframe 6y agoConsidering they do intercept, as widely documented, question is how do they see if traffic is encrypted?
- jagger27 6y agoPretty trivial. If it looks like random noise, and doesn't have a compression header then it's probably encrypted.
- eric-hu 6y agoI recall seeing a story in the past about how the NSA planted a misleadingly weak encryption library. https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/10/new_evidence_of_nsa_weakening.html https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/10/new_evidence_of... If the encryption used is flawed, they could see whatever they want.
- jagger27 6y agoSource, destination, message length, etc. Lots of interesting meta data to play with.
- lallysingh 6y agoassuming there isn't a point-to-point encryption layer for the whole cable.
- jagger27 6y agoSure, but the NSA tap probably sits just after that point.
- temp0826 6y agoI’d love to see wireshark running on a saturated 250Tbps link
- gspr 6y agoNobody knows. Probably not. But Snowden showed us that a lot of it is scooped up and warehoused. Maybe they can see your traffic in a decade or two?
- xbmcuser 6y agoForget encryption every second so much data passes through at a time can they even isolate particular data let alone encrypted data. Can they process all that data in real time if not how are they storing it to process later. This is just 1 cable from 1 company there are now dozens of cables of different companies.
- vngzs 6y ago> so much data passes through at a time can they even isolate particular data let alone encrypted data. They can't. That's why they call it "bulk collection." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program...
- throw0101a 6y ago> what can they actually see if the traffic is encrypted? They can see who is talking to who, and when: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis