It would also be cheaper to add an additional layer of security with encryption vs. roving teams of gun toting manhole watchers.
YMMV, Best! Marty On 6/2/09, Deepak Jain <dee...@ai.net> wrote: >> No. And here's why: If you're a naughty foreign intelligence team, and >> you know your stuff, you already know where some of the cables you'd >> really like a tap on are buried. When you hear of a construction >> project >> that might damage one, you set up your innocuous white panel truck >> somewhere else, near a suitable manhole. When the construction guy with >> a backhoe chops the cable (and you may well slip him some money to do >> so), *then* you put your tap in, elsewhere, with your actions covered >> by >> the downtime at the construction site. That's why the guys in the SUVs >> are in such a hurry, because they want to close the window of time in >> which someone can be tapping the cable elsewhere. >> >> At least that's what I heard. I read it somewhere on the internet. >> Definitely. Not at all a sneaky person. No sir. > > And if you were a naughty foreign intelligence team installing a tap, or a > bend, or whatever in the fiber contemporaneously with a known cut, you could > also reamplify and dispersion compensate for the slight amount of affect > your work is having so that when its tested later, the OTDR is blind to your > work. > > Ah, the fun of Paranoia, Inc. > > Deepak Jain > AiNET > > -- Martin Hannigan mar...@theicelandguy.com p: +16178216079 Power, Network, and Costs Consulting for Iceland Datacenters and Occupants