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• buro9 13y ago
  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/politics/20submarine.html http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/politics/20submarine.html "The capacity of fiber optics is so much greater than other communications media or technologies, and it's also immune to the stick-up-an-antenna type of eavesdropping," said Jeffrey Richelson, an expert on intelligence technologies. To listen to fiber-optic transmissions, intelligence operatives must physically place a tap somewhere along the route. If the stations that receive and transmit the communications along the lines are on foreign soil or otherwise inaccessible, tapping the line is the only way to eavesdrop on it. The intelligence experts admit there is much that is open to speculation, such as how the information recorded at a fiber-optic tap would get to analysts at the National Security Agency for review.
  • car 13y ago
    The intelligence experts admit there is much that is open to speculation, such as how the information recorded at a fiber-optic tap would get to analysts at the National Security Agency for review. How about another fiber in the same bundle? Also, during the telco bust, there was a lot of 'dark' (i.e. unlit) fiber, probably prophylactically tapped by NSA.
    • visarga 13y ago
      Or the "dark" fiber was the return line for the tapped data.
      • buro9 13y ago
        You'd still need to terminate at the surface point, in which case what are you gaining by sending a modified sub to the bottom of the ocean?