Cheaper?
To quote sneakers.... were the united states govt. we don't do that sort
of thing.
Martin Hannigan wrote:
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
