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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:55:23 +0000 From: "Dobbins, Roland" <[email protected]> To: NANOG list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH] On Jun 25, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > this I thought included the capabilities to drag the fiber/line into the hull > for 'work' to be done... I'd note that introducing signal > loss on the longhaul fiber seems 'risky', you'd have to know (and this isn't > hard I bet) the tolerances of the link in question and have a > way to stay inside those tolerances and not introduce new > splice-points/junctions/etc and be careful for the undersea cable > power (electric) requirements as well. Kind of makes one think about the spate of high-profile submarine cable breaks over the past couple of years in a different light, doesn't it? ;> > and yea, why not just work with the landindstation operators to use the > existing monitoring ports they use? (or get a copy of the monitor ports) Operational security in the original meaning of the term (i.e., what people don't know about, they can't talk to reporters from the Guardian about). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <[email protected]> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. -- John Milton ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5 -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
