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"Passive undersea fiber monitoring is well within the means of more than a few intelligence operations" What kind of equipment/engineering would be required fo
by Element_ 14y ago
"Passive undersea fiber monitoring is well within the means of more than a few intelligence operations"
What kind of equipment/engineering would be required for that?
Has there been any documented cases of a government doing that in the past?
- rurounijones 14y agoThere have been documented cases of undersea cables being tapped: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells Regarding Fibre I am not sure of documented cases but: http://www.zdnet.com/news/spy-agency-taps-into-undersea-cable/115877 http://www.zdnet.com/news/spy-agency-taps-into-undersea-cabl...
- trotsky 14y agoVery roughly, you strip the casing and then bend the fiber until a small amount of light begins escaping through the small gaps created by the bending. Most of the light continues to travel through the cable unharmed aside from a tiny decrease in intensity. Here is a page with some pictures of something along those lines: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/protect-your-network-against-fiber-hacks/222 http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/protect-your-netwo... Here is an article about a US sub equipped for this kind of job: http://defensetech.org/2005/02/21/jimmy-carter-super-spy/ http://defensetech.org/2005/02/21/jimmy-carter-super-spy/