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Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH]
- Subject: Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH]
- From: rdobbins at arbor.net (Dobbins, Roland)
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:23:43 +0000
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On Jun 25, 2013, at 8:15 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Which made me immediately realize it would be far simpler to strong arm the cable operators to split off all channels before connecting them to the customer.
It's potentially a lot simpler than that:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells>
<http://defensetech.org/2005/02/21/jimmy-carter-super-spy/>
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