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

[Daniel Harrison]

Governments rarely concern themselves with cost and ease. Tapping undersea cables
is expensive to do but it's also expensive to locate. My understanding of these
cables is that the majority of them are self-healing ( there is a little robotic
thingy that goes out and recoats the cable every so often). I would imagine that
if the tap was larger than what could fit inside the cable there would be
problems with it causing interference with the robot widget. Of course I could
also be completely wrong. =)

-dan


Jonas Luster wrote:

> * Bernd Eckenfels sez:
>
> > Therefore tapping the submarine cables will enable to snoop on a great deal
> > of international communication. (IP or not).
>
> The only question to remain is why anyone in his right mindset would tap
> these cables there in a costly and not very comfortable enterprise when
> all he has to do is tap at the end points on land which are, TTBOMK, easily
> tappeable.
>
> jonas
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