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There's a huge difference between passively tapping a fiber optic cable and infiltrating a network to inject malicious traffic. All we've ever seen evidence of
by flyt 12y ago
There's a huge difference between passively tapping a fiber optic cable and infiltrating a network to inject malicious traffic. All we've ever seen evidence of is NSA's passive tapping of Google & others.
- jonknee 12y agoWouldn't you want to prevent "passive" tapping? Passive in quotes because depending on what they find people will be killed, tortured, executed, kidnapped, arrested, etc. It's not passive when the NSA scoops up everyone's data and sends it to their spook friends around the world.
- staunch 12y agoWe know the NSA targets routers. They have rootkits and remote exploits for them. They can do packet injection or anything else with the traffic passing through routers they take over.
- AlyssaRowan 12y agoThere are more exploited routers than passive taps.