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> you couldn't tap in without disturbing the optical signal Well of course you can't. If you're going to split it off to read it, then you're "disturbing" it b
by enko 13y ago
> you couldn't tap in without disturbing the optical signal
Well of course you can't. If you're going to split it off to read it, then you're "disturbing" it by definition.
Whether or not you can do such that it's not noticeable to the proper end parties, of course, is a different story.
- bennyg 13y agoWhat's to stop a direct packet copy? The line goes in, a digital device sees the packets, copies them bit for bit and sends the original to their destination and a copy to the NSA. Similar to headphone splitting.
- jeffasinger 13y agoThe act of doing the splitting would increase latency.
- tripzilch 13y agoI'm no expert but this will probably produce extra latency?
- m4x 13y agoI think most of the taps they're referring to involve tapping light directly off the fiber, which reduces the light intensity at the receiving end and can therefore be detected in theory at least Interfering with existing amplifiers/signal boosters would be fairly hard to hide unless the NSA was solely responsible for that units maintenance, and I suspect that as a general rule they aren't. It's much easier to hide a tap at some random point along the line where nobody has any reason to visit