There are cables that have science payloads in the repeaters. You can imagine something like a doped fibre that notices nuclear submarines passing or global warming or something else that the USA doesn't want measured.
John Lindsay > On 27 Jul 2017, at 11:15 pm, Damien Gardner Jnr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 27 July 2017 at 23:33, Mark Newton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I mean, really: the idea that a cable won't have listening devices on it >> just because it was installed by someone other than Huawei isn't exactly >> joined-up thinking either. >> > > That's the bit that got me. If you're sending sensitive data that you don't > want the {insert ANY} govt to get access to, the company that lays the fibre > shouldn't really even come into consideration. You should be encrypting that > traffic over the wire, at which point, it actually doesn't matter whether you > trust the fibre installer or not... > > > -- > Damien Gardner Jnr > VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust > [email protected] - http://www.rendrag.net/ > -- > We rode on the winds of the rising storm, > We ran to the sounds of thunder. > We danced among the lightning bolts, > and tore the world asunder > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
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