On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > Very few ISP's ever go to the landing stations, typically the cable operators > provide cross connects to a small number of backhaul providers. That makes a > much smaller number of people who might ever notice the splitters and taps, > and makes it totally transparent to the ISP. But the big question is, does > this happen? I'm sure some people on this list have been to cable landing > stations and looked around. I'm not sure if any of them will comment.
yes it happens. c.f.: http://207.198.103.187:8081/wci.jpg the lower images are the facilities at the landing site, the upper images the termination / peering point a few score miles down fiber. pre-911 the landing site was more shack and less fortress (i may have a before picture somewhere.) cryptome has some great info on cable routes and facilities: http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cable/cable-eyeball.htm http://cryptome.org/nsa-seatap.htm http://cryptome.org/telecomm-weak.htm http://cryptome.org/nsa-fibertap.htm http://cryptome.org/nsa-lynn.htm note that this line of inquiry is frowned upon. after Sean Gorman's dissertation on critical infrastructure vulnerabilities the prevailing approach has been security through obscurity. we all know how well that works... ;) -- 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
