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Tapping multi-mode dark fiber unnoticed is now considered trivially easy? I must have missed when the bar was shifted this high.
by res0nat0r 13y ago
Tapping multi-mode dark fiber unnoticed is now considered trivially easy? I must have missed when the bar was shifted this high.
- XorNot 13y agoThe fiber doesn't run straight into a Google datacenter. It's operated and managed by the company which lays the cable under the sea, which means it goes through their stations at the coast and probably through quite a bit of other non-exclusive routing hardware. The fact that routing hardware exists means you can pretty easily tap it.
- res0nat0r 13y agoI believe my comment is pertaining to the use of the word "easily". James Bamford in The Shadow Factory was talking about how difficult this is, even for government institutions.
- crucifiction 13y agoYou don't need to tap dark fiber for this to be poor security. They were passing all internal data around in clear text. It would have been trivial for any data center employee to gain significant amounts of open data this way. Why wouldn't you have services, db connections, etc. encrypted internally? Its certainly possible and done within many companies, it is surprising how lax google was in their assumption that once inside the network everything is going to be a-ok.
- res0nat0r 13y agoThis isn't something that is "easy" when you run one of the biggest infrastructures in the world.