Re: Submarine Network Sniffer - Do such a product exist??

[Bernd Eckenfels]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:43:59AM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> cables and that's about it.  The only ISPs with undersea cables would
> be international ISPs (and most ISPs are not international) or have
> direct international connections with other ISPs (again, not most).

Isnt that a bit too short sighted in a international world. I mean, not only
the US has ISPs.

Actually most Internet Communication between the different continents happen
to be by Undersea Cables. The Reason for this is that SAT uplinks are way to
slow in terms of latency (round trip times) to be usefull for interactive IP
(and even phone) usage.

Therefore tapping the submarine cables will enable to snoop on a great deal
of international communication. (IP or not).

Greetings
Bernd
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