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All these secrets have been sent in plaintext between Google data-centres over 'dark fibre' we now suspect the NSA has been wholescale recording. There are bel
by willvarfar 13y ago
All these secrets have been sent in plaintext between Google data-centres over 'dark fibre' we now suspect the NSA has been wholescale recording.
There are belated efforts by google to encrypt the traffic between its data centres, but its basically too late.
- mmagin 13y agoIt's not 'dark fibre' if you're using it.
- jethro_tell 13y agoHe's just talking about the time between the bits.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoSurely that would be half lit.
- packetslave 13y agoDark fiber is a fairly well-accepted industry term for fiber that you operate yourself, with your own lasers, as opposed to capacity that you lease from a telco and just provide your bits via serial or whatever. It has also been considered to be pretty secure against eavesdropping due to multiplexing and just the sheer amount of data that can be shoved down a single long-haul fiber these days (5+ Tb/sec). Unfortunately, that's no longer necessarily true when you're up against an adversary with nation-state resources.